Charlotte Catholic and Cardinal Gibbons 6A

[bigdadd11103]

you lost me at "lack of diversity". wtf does that have to do with anything.

Meaning schools that don't have to admit everyone and that have controlled admissions can select who comes and who goes. This allwos the school to get like minded individuals which is very beneficial to sports and academics. Whereas public schools must accept anyone in their boundary regardless of their prior behavior, income, or ability to play sports. Its called the Gideon effect/300.

 

[btango]

One big difference between Cardinal Gibbons and Charlotte Catholic is CC has four excellent private schools (Big 4) within eight miles or less of the CC campus. Providence Day has decided to go full throttle on football. Christian has been good for years. Country Day was one of the best programs / teams (privae or public) in the state for years. Latin is probably as good as it gets academically and has had some football success. When Raleigh families look at the best option for education the private school choices will not be as abundant. There are Catholic families that opt to pay more than double (around $33k) to send their children to a couple of the Big Four schools. I think Christian is "only" in the low $20k range.

 

[btango]

They have assistance set up separate from the school. Like Shutdown said the coaches make sure they have access to the financing/discounts.

I can assure you when I was involved with the NCHSAA that the Parochials agreed to allow no tuition assistance for athletes to include any third party or the Parochial Schools programs.

There were cases post 2008 of students leaving CC because of this. It was a hot topic because the funds were available to any Catholic family based strictly on finances.

 

[btango]

And CC has been allowing in athletes without requiring them to sit 365 mandatory as they initially agreed to. They try to loophole as a non-boarding parochial school but they are in fact private schools. Add bishop McGuiness too. 3 Schools have won over 200 state titles in last 25 years. NO way they should be in the NCHSAA

I do not think they are required to follow this rule since the NCHSAA allowed the transfers within the publics. I am not in tune with these rules now.

I do know that it was enforced by CC very strictly at one time. Student attended Catholic schools system and CC from K through freshman or sophomore year. Left for a year to his home public school (seven miles distance between schools), returned to CC after one year and CC would not allow him to play based on the 365 rule. I did not agree with this, thought he should have been allowed to play.