<p>"Despite pleas from players and parents, the board in the small northern Michigan district recently upheld the school's earlier decision to end the [football] season, saying players risked injury in trying to take on much stronger opponents."</p>
<p>The head coach (who has 28 years of coaching experience) initiated the cancellation. From the article it sounds like there was genuine concern that someone would get paralyzed if they kept up. It's a shame that there wasn't a less competitive league available for the kids to play in.</p>
<p>I was not talking about all college athletes. I was talking about athletes that do not have the academic preparation, to begin with, to perform at the schools there are getting into.</p>
<p>I used the one person I know as an example. But hes not the only player to have been recruited to play football, for example, for colleges that are reach schools for the average kid. These kids are minimally prepared, or not prepared at all, for college (no college prep work in high school, low scores, low grades, etc.) What happens when they get to college is theyre still unprepared, they do get help, but many cannot graduate anyway.</p>
<p>I hope everyone did not think I was talking about all athletes.</p>
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<p>No, I didn't think so! There are a bunch of posters on this board who could post their own children's examples too--me included--of kids who truly are scholar-athletes in the best sense of both parts of that word. But there are enough abuses in the system that "attention should be paid"</p>