To me the criticism needs to be directed more at the administration than Rich. Rich's job as basketball coach is to select the best players for his team. Clearly, if the school agrees to having this kids stay and play (I feel this is not in the spirit of high school sports, unless they have moved) then he is entitled to select them.

Different coaches would have different comfort levels with this situation, and no one knows how Coach W feels about it. Certainly there will be much less respect for any of the achievements accomplished by this team if the Neda players are a part of it.

However, this is true of many ofsaa champion teams who were a collection of all stars recruited from other schools. This is just the most drastic and unique case.

Bottom line is most people don't care about public perception.

This situation is ugly to say the least.