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Subject: Re: Dartmouth & Harvard Ski Teams lack of diversity


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Date Posted: 11:37:43 03/20/24 Wed
In reply to: RedWin 's message, "Re: Dartmouth & Harvard Ski Teams lack of diversity" on 08:33:35 03/20/24 Wed
 If a kid cannot start on his local HS team, it's hard to see how he could suddenly impress college coaches enough to be given a college sports admission/scholarship based solely on the IMG name. The IMG name alone isn't going to cause a knowledgeable college recruiter, whose job depends on identifying talent, to unsee whatever deficiencies exist.

Perhaps IMG has the facilities and personnel to "coach up" a player enough to address clear deficiencies, but is this any different than sending a kid to a local camp, private coach clinic, or just hiring a prviate coach? We can disagree on the choice of priorities, but parents have been sending (or transferring) their kids to HS perceived to offer coaching advantages for a long time. As noted above this the same approach as for academic improvement.
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