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In reply to the discussion: is it bad sportsmanship to win by 161 to 2? basketball coach suspended [View all]Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)how big the student body is, how much of a talent pool there is to choose from, and how many they dress for gameday...
I went to a Catholic high school, and I can definitely say that (at for private school conferences at least) there can be immense gaps in school size and resources...I went to a 400-student school, and we'd regularly (but not always) get trounced by the 1500-student school...On the flipside, everybody in the conference crushed the 140-student school, who in most sports only had the minimum allowable roster to field a team (which is 7 for basketball, iirc while powerhouse schools use the full 15 slots)
But it's not always about student body size -- Years after I graduated, another of the conference doormats (about 300 students) invested in their basketball program, and started offering money (i.e., free tuition) for the public school ringers...They even started scouting/recruiting European kids...Now that doormat is playing games on ESPN(!)