Moral Relativity

Lester thanks for the comments. Your right, it is just a movie and it is much different than real life. Your absolutely right.

The truth of the matter is that the movie, "based on a true story", and the real life story are moral contradictions.

Kicking a player off the team because he cheated on a test at school verses recruiting players from New Zealand every year and sneaking them into the public school system.

If the coaches applied the same rules to themselves, that they proudly apply to the players, there would be no coaches on the team.

"We are building young men with integrity, honesty, character, teamwork and a strict honor code".

Then we close the office door to take a call about the 6 import players coming from New Zealand in 2009. You can't have one flavor of integrity for players and another flavor for the coaching staff.

Another interesting happening, if someone can verify this it would be appreciated.

Ten players from Highland and ten players from United tried out for the BYU rugby squad.

Six players from United made the squad including a freshman starting on the A team as a lock.

One player from Highland made the team, and he was one of the boys from New Zealand.

The skills of the local HR players have been capped in a sense, because they sit on the bench when the going gets tough. Like muscles that are rarely used, they will not be as nimble, strong or flexible as those that get regular exercise. Losing is an essential element of moving down the path from good to great.

For the sake of winning and maintaining the big image these young men struggle when they leave Highland and try to move to the collegiate or club level play. Shameful and sad. These young men deserve better. This is the invisible yet real collateral damage that no one likes to talk about. It is the result of this train wreck policy of winning at any cost.

I also heard through the grapevine that the private school in Herraman that the kiwi boys "attended" this year 2008, the USC Sports Academy has closed it doors. If this is true it will be interesting to see which school they show up in next year. Is there a connection between Bob Jones the owner of the now defunct school and Larry Gelwix?

Will HR now change their strategy and recruit players on J1 exchange student visas so they can legally attend the Utah public schools? This means a real one year commitment to school and much higher costs. If money is not an issue and they want to keep up the big scores, the big win stats, and the big image, then this may be their only option. We will see.