No, no, no, Conswayla B, you're missing the key point about the private schools' advantage here. The geographic areas the key private schools draw from are not to be found in the middle of an expansive and sparsely populated desert. They are all located in or near the three large metropolitan areas of SC, so they draw from a dense population base and can freely attract good players across established school zoning lines. Any public HS coach in the state would welcome this opportunity to have kids from "all over" be able to choose to attend his or her school and play on their team -- this would, in effect, give a model more like club structure. (The possible exception to this could be Wando which might well opt for the advantages of East of the Cooper social purity over the mongrelization of its soccer teams.) I'm not proposing that SCHSL change its classifications, only pointing out that a number of private schools have a clear benefit from their ability to work across the arbitrary lines that school boards impose on the public schools, and that as a result they are able to dominate their leagues in a way that is disproportionate to the size of their student enrollment. Don't you think this is true?

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