Spazsdad wrote:Schmick wrote:For travel teams, people will drive across county lines, hence the term "travel".
High School teams though, that only happens for the Big private schools and the IE doesn't have any of those but do send a lot of kids to the likes of O Lu, Mater Dei, Rancho Santa Margarita.... and wherever the girls go when the boys go to Bosco and Servite.
In HS you have the Big 8 league that is probably unmatched top to bottom by any HS league in the nation. Norco, ML King, Santiago, Corona, Roosevelt and Centennial.
If you don’t think players transfer into public schools in the IE you are sadly mistaken. I have a few just on my TB team.
Not to mention outside of Norco and until recently Santiago the big 8 ain’t all that.
Go ahead and point out where I said that athletes at IE public schools don't transfer.
What other league has as many good teams as the Big 8?
Norco has been to back to back D1 championships
King went to the D2 championship in 2018
Santiago has been solid
That's 50% of the league
Roosevelt should make massive strides with Brashear and Smith coaching there now.
Corona and Centennial will likely be the weakest teams but they'd still beat Newport Harbor, Estancia, Costa Mesa, CDM, Woodbridge, University, Saddleback, SA Centennial... and it likely wouldn't be close.