Is recruiting athletes at area high schools rampant?

athletes at borderland high schools a bigger problem that first thought? we’re looking into it after the coronado volleyball coach was just found to have recruited freshmen to his program. abc- seven’s darren hunt has .. open … the story developing now. darren. rick/estela, coronado coach raul lawrence wasn’t the only one accused of recruiting transfers … his accuser, franklin coach flo valdez, was accused by students of doing the same thing during that meeting … leaving us asking the districts today whether recruiting is rampant: “unfortunately sometimes th power and desire to win becomes tantamount to doing things that are not what should be done.” mitch morgan is the father of a coronado high freshman, who he says was recently cut from the freshman volleyball team by varsity coach raul lawrence to make room for more than a dozen transfers. “we put a lot of trust in our coaches, our administrators and our teachers, and i feel that they should be our partners.” a district executive committee ruled tuesday that at least eight of the girls were recruited by lawrence. “do you hope that there’s som kind of stiff penalty for him for recruiting.” “i definitely think there shoul be something.” ui officials told me lawrence can only “i definitely think there shoul be something.” uil official told me lawrence can only receive a reprimand from a district executive committee, which meets again next month. however, if the case is referred to a state committee, he could face probation, a public reprimand or even suspension from coaching for one to three years. a recent dallas morning news story suggests recruiting is “rampant” in texas in fact all of this year’s state champs in basketball had more than one notable transfer in the starting lineup. a uil spokeswoman told us, quote: “students certainly do ofte change schools. they do transfer. i wouldn’t say it’s necessarily rampant. but it happens much more often in major metropolitan areas.” “do you think this is going on, lot of sports, lot of schools?” “there’s no doubt that all th schools on this side of this side of town do recruit to a degree, i’ve witnessed it.” the athletic directors at the el paso, ysleta and socorro districts all declined to give us interviews today. they even stopped us from speaking with coaches who wanted to speak with us. rick? darren, live in west el paso, thank you for digging deeper. taking