From: davidc@montagar.com (David L. Cathey)
Newsgroups: tx.politics
Subject: Re: Football Failures at Bowie Force end of Season
Date: 5 Nov 92 23:45:43 CDT
Distribution: tx
Organization: Montagar Software Concepts, Plano TX

In article <1992Nov03.235337.19715@watson.ibm.com>, johniac@johniac.austin.ibm.com (John Iacoletti/100000) writes:
> In article <1992Oct30.091317.16897@montagar.com> davidc@montagar.com (David L. Cathey) writes:
> 
> 1.  You have every right to not have a high-paying job.

	Agreed...  But you should be able to make enough to survive on.

> 2.  If you decide later that you want a high school diploma after all, there's
>     something called a GED.
> 
> Education isn't a window that slams shut once you turn 18.

	No, but once you're at a disadvantage to those around you, the window
is harder to open.

>>	Well, if I was at a football training facility, where the purpose was
>>to train football players, and I was taking math class for fun, that might have
>>meaning.  However, we are talking about publics schools whose purpose is not to
>>train football players, but provide an education.
> 
> But the system is rigged.  The only way to pursue a career in professional
> sports is through the academic high schools and colleges.  This needs to 
> change.

	Gee, too bad.  If I want to get a paycheck, I might have to do a little
grunt work.  Life is full of trade offs. If anything else, they might as
well learn that.  You don't seem concerned they learn anything else.  And
if you would forget your moronic "Maybe they don't want high paying jobs!"
bullshit, you would realize that's why they want to be football stars in
the first place.

	The system is rigged, but the wrong way!  We reward people, some of
whom may be effectively morons, with MILLIONS of dollars a year, just because
they can catch a ball and run.  Oh no, they don't want high paying jobs...
What you are wanting to do is continue in subsidized ignorance.

	And another part of your statement is laden with inaccuracies:
"The only way to pursue a career in professional sports is through the
academic high schools and colleges."  I say "Wrong", as the only sports
where this is even marginally true is Football and Basketball.  Other
organizations promote other sports without being sponsored under auspices of
a school: Little League Baseball, United States Cycling Federation, Soccer
Leagues, Bowling Leagues, PGA, Hockey, Triathlons, Track, Volleyball, etc... 
There are even new sports coming out all the time (Rollerblading, Wind-surfing,
and ESPN would probably cover an Aerobic Basketweaving Championship).
Dropping out of High School does not end your "professional sports career"
unless you let it.  Just maybe it's a little harder, but hey, life's full
of trade offs.

>>	Neither is letting them play football.  But it keeps their options
>>open to other opportunities incase they are injured, don't get that
>>scholarship (which if they fail their classes there, the lose the scholarship),
>>or picked for that pro team.  Why do you want those options closed?
> 
> I don't.  If they choose to excel in their academic classes as well as on the 
> field then more power to them.

	And again here.  It is not my desire for them to "excel" as you
put it.  Again you with go with your idiotic assumption that I insist they
become Nobel Prize winners or something.  I have emphasised that I just think
they should *PASS THE CLASS*.  That means not getting an "F".  It does not
mean they are required to get an "A".

	Why don't we ask retired professional athletes or the dreamers that
didn't get that scholarship or drafted by the pro team what they think?

> -- 
> John Iacoletti       IBM AWS Austin       Internet: johniac@austin.ibm.com
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