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Originally posted by JRutledge
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Originally posted by stripes
Are these coaches simply concerned with winning?
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They sure are. Do you want to feed your family or worry about some kid who thinks he is going pro regardless of what you tell him?
I believe that the college has some responsibility, but the players have a bigger responsibility. Their parent have a bigger responsibility. Their peers have a bigger responsibility. Instead of telling the kid how great of a player he is, tell the kid that if he does not get an education, he is in big trouble. Every kid thinks he is going to hit the lottery by making the NBA. If someone around him does not keep his feet on the ground, he might not value anything else.
You can make them go to class, but that does not mean they will learn anything if they are not there to do that in their own value system.
Peace
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If it were just so easy. People just want their gladiatorsÂ…
The wife, through her sister, is a good friend of the mother of Robert Smith, X of Ohio State and the Vikings. While sitting out his sophomore year because had class conflicts with some practices he was branded a traitor to the school by both the public and the coaching staff. A member of which told him that he has to drop the classes.
Came his senior year and he again had conflicts with classes and some practices. The coach told him that he had to play football and that he had to drop classes. If he did so he would not have been able to graduate in 4 years. So, he took the coaches advice to the extreme and dropped OSU and turned pro. Again the public vilified him. (The Vikings were happy to send him to school in the off season.) The last I heard he was applying to medical school.