I liked the part where the scholar athletes were sent to the 2-day/week “hybrid-school” at half-tuition, so that they could better concentrate. “They’re coming here for Jesus, not football.”
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I enjoy these stories because it proves that just because you made a lot of money, you can still be an idiot. Also: sometimes you get what’s coming to you.
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Nothing new here. My former home town had a couple of religious schools/football academies. They both had a similar pattern. Any 8th grader that showed promise was held back a year because they weren’t “socially mature”. Then magically, after football season was over their senior year, they graduated early in December so they could attend spring training at which ever university so they might win a starting position come the fall.
Of all the kids that went through the schools, only 1 briefly held a clip board as backup QB in the NFL. Meanwhile via the old fashioned way, I played against 2 kids that had decent NFL careers. One a DE that won a Super Bowl and another was a starting QB in the Super Bowl but lost.
Personally, I’m just waiting for Fan Duel and Draft Kings et al to start taking bets on high school sports.
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I have the opposite side of that. When a close friend of the family’s son was ten he was 5’ 8". Now he is 6’ 8". He was at Simsbury High School in CT. He played three sports. The year he played baseball as a senior they won state.
After he graduated his senior year, he went for an extra senior year at Choate Rosemary Hall on a sports scholarship to play an extra year of football. Then onto Amherst on a sports scholarship for football. He lost weight, and was cut from the football team. He joined the crew team. He kept his scholarship.
He’s been on Wall Street for some years, but I do not know where he is now.
That’s not a D1 story.
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