<p>I console myself with the sports by thinking of a friend’s older kid, very similar but a slightly better student. He went to a SUNY and played football as a walk-on (no money). He thought he was in college TO play football (and to be worshipped as a football player in the off-hours). He flunked out, came home and went to County, had become accustomed to a degree of freedom that made him pretty much unlivable in the parental home, had become a drinker, it is a miserable situation, and now County has not worked out, either.</p>