Christian schools with outstanding records often recruit ringer players from the community. It is an attempt to influence sometimes troubled youths to become better citizens and is a legitimate ministry, IMHO. However, it often doesn’t work out.
I think the reason it doesn’t often work out is because we are trying to change the person on the outside, hoping that those changes seep inside of him and recrate him on the inside.
This is part of the reason to stick with scholastics, you have to change people on the inside in order to change them on the outside.