The FWHS boys basketball team is notorious state-wide for recruiting, and has been for decades. Many of FW's star players were and are not from the FWHS service area. Players have been recruited from other schools literally dozens of times. Questions--- where did these boys go to Middle School, and how and why did they end up at FWHS? Another question-- how many of those imports graduated? Decatur, Jefferson and Beamer play by one set of rules and FW by another. Every coach in the NPSL/SPSL understands this. It is a running conversation and joke at the state tournament. The first day of school is very exciting to see what basketball star from elsewhere is enrolling at FWHS.  The WIAA knows (and turns away), as does the Federal Way School District through multiple superintendents and athletic directors. The Seattle Times did a series of stories on Bellevue High's corrupt football program. It would take an army of investigative journalists to probe 25+ years of FWHS boys basketball.