JA is going to have one of the best basketball teams in the state this year public or private.
Yep. The better private schools tend to fair pretty well when they match up with public schools.
In football, by all accounts the MRA vs Oak Grove overtime game this year was one of the best games of the season.
Oak Grove is one of the last four football teams playing in the biggest public school division. MRA lost to Prep and Hartfield.
That’s not to say those teams would have beaten Oak Grove, but this huge public/private gap that people want to imagine just isn’t there with the better private schools.
Hartfield has something six or seven D1 prospects, and most of them have been there since 7th grade or earlier.
They also lost some talented kids over the last few years to NWR, Brandon, and Terry. And if I’m not mistaken they lost a really talented linebacker to Prep several years ago.
These kids move now for sports. It’s just not uncommon anymore.