re: Question on Freeze's behavior at Briarcrest Christian School in relation to Ole Miss

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It was no longer against the TSSAA rules to recruit kids to private schools for sports after the private school/public school split in 1997. Some schools were doing it before then though

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the TSSAA split because private schools offer financial aid. It did not give schools the ability to have free reign to recruit athletes. Schools circumvent the rules, absolutely, but no they can't just recruit athletes. For instance, my school started "recruiting" after I graduated. ALL students still have to pass the entrance exams. Then they fill out the same paperwork other students do that receive financial aid. About 1/3 of our student body was on financial aid, most of them being non-athletes. However, the shite Braircrest was doing when Freeze was there, what Brentwood Academy has been doing for decades, and what Ensworth is doing now isn't exactly "by the book."

But yes, in a nutshell, they made private high schools switch divisions because of that.

ETA: additionally, if you transfer from a public school to a private school, you have to sit out a year. If you transfer from one private to another private, you have to sit out a year.