Originally Posted by Anonymous
Seems like LE and BBL kids have done pretty well at SHP i.e Lyght, Schweiger, etc.

And there are plenty of non-pirates that excel at Tri-State. Many of the top players on the TS 2023 team were not SHP kids - Montclair, Colts Neck, RBR, Manasquan, etc.

While kids certainly play SHP/TS for the perceived advantage, I do not agree that they are a package deal. From a pure business perspective, if only SHP kids were getting time for TS, no kid from other parts of the state, i.e, Monmouth, Mercer, Bergen, etc., would bother playing TS. As the posters above noted, just look at the number of kids from Monmouth playing TS, and the non-TS kids playing at SHP. Best kids play no matter what club/school they got to. The SHP folks certainly would not be happy if they were losing out on top player solely because they were not from TS. Coach controls TS, so no fear of job loss, but he needs to have success at SHP for job security.