A - if you're good, you'll get recruited, wherever you play
B - their development comes during practice, not waxing the other kids in games
C - the phrase "HS tuition" is nuts itself
Suburbs = tuition for high school = white flight
A: that is becoming more and more true, but not absolutely so.
There's no reason to say that, if there are 2,000 scholarship spots available each year that they *absolutely* go to the kids who were (irrespective of published rankings) objectively numbers 1 through 2,000. Kids get hidden - often in rural areas, and the northeast. That's far less likely to happen at IMG.
And even for the ones who get a scholarship, it would be strange for us to conclude that 100% of them get discovered by the level of school corresponding to their talent. Again, less of an issue at IMG. (And, given the talent at IMG, it's clear this is the issue that's most relevant)
B: That's my point too. That these IMGers develop more facing off against other IMGers than the kids at St. Arbitrary of Lakes develop by competing with themselves.
C: Whether it's "nuts" has no bearing on whether it has value. And dollars aside, most of the transfers to IMG are coming from poorer districts. I'd estimate that IMG's boarding school/academy will deliver a superior education to the majority and perhaps all of those football transfers.