.. Yep, Hutch has been on a football roll for the last five or six years--don't see where they did much before then.
These public school achievements no way compare to the disproportionate state qualifiers, placers and championships of private and parochial schoos.
I know that you are pretty convinced that the private schools need to be handicapped in some way and I realize you are far from the only one that feels that way.
I still can't believe how easily you dismiss the value of a great coach in a team's success. The very example that you bring up of the Hutchinson football team only being on a roll for the last six years is for me one of my primary examples of the value of a great coach in a team's success. I am including a link to an article that will detail to you the state of the Hutchinson football program before Randy Dreiling arrived in 1998 and how he turned it around. I think you should be able to see after reading that article that Great Coaches do make a big difference in programs. If you still don't think so please explain to us why you think Hutchinson's football program fortunes turned around if it was not due to Randy Dreiling becoming their coach.
Also please explain to me why SM Northwest is able to have such great cross country success (I believe they have 31 girls and boys state track titles during Coach Van Rose's career). Explain to me in detail what it is peculiar about the SM Northwest area that gives it such an advantage in enrolling great cross country runners. Tell me why you do not think this type of success is also not due to Great Coaching.
Explain to me why Nebraska's and Oklahoma's football program faded after Tom Osborne and Barry Switzer retired.
Not all the private school athletic programs are having great success not even in the schools that have one or two successfull programs. For instance Bishop Ward has baseball but what other sport is it having that type of success in? I think what you will find is that the most successful private school athletic programs are the ones that have Great Coaches and Great Coaches do make a difference whether it is public or private.
I don't think we can ever handicap Great Coaching. Most of us realize that great coaching is a big factor in a program's success and it has also been a big factor in the success of many of these long term successful private school athletic programs in Kansas.
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