Yes, it might be, if you didn't think the public high school academic environment was doing active harm to your children. Being exposed to an all-day booby hatch is a high price to pay for a football program. Having to supplement that indoctrination with after-hours, after-football homeschooling is just excremental icing on the frankly-inedible cake.
(I should apologize for being so vehement... as you might imagine, I can get kind of passionate about homeschooling. Sorry.)
Nothing against Tim Tebow (as soon as he left UF I became a fan), but he was a gifted standout when he was young and started playing at a local Christian Academy in western Jacksonville his freshman year. That team didn't have a passing offense so his family wanted to find another school for him to go to so he could be a top recruit. They chose Nease High in south Jacksonville where the coach wanted him to play, and so he and his mom rented an apartment near the school so he could attend while the rest of the family lived back in their old neighborhood. The laws in Florida let home schoolers compete, so not only did he not have to be a real resident, he didn't even have to attend the school.
Parents who don't home school do this all the time with gifted athlete children, but at least they still have to arrange for the kid to attend the school.
So if the starting Nease quarterback who worked his way up to that position was bumped by a guy who doesn't even really live in your district, AND doesn't even go to the school....I don't know, I think that takes the spirit out of high school sports. Maybe I'm wrong, but if this were nationwide, top high school athletes can be recruited to go anywhere they want and they don't even have to attend the school.
Maybe this type of situation is rare, but its the first thing that came to mind when I thought about the kid in this article.