Fail to attend an SAT workshop, take a seat on the bench. Miss a study session, watch the game. If basketball is so important and so necessary, which it is for these kids, they would do anything to play. Jarvis' prescription clashed with harsh reality at Fordham that Saturday last June. As hundreds of players took turns running the courts from midmorning to late at night, not one of those waiting in the stands had a book open.
Some players attend prep school as part of the usual four-year high school period.
But more players need prep school for a fifth, or postgraduate, year because they finish four years of high school still lacking the academic requirements to be eligible to play as college freshmen. He can always try to improve SAT scores. It's a shame. We end up sending the wrong message. Attending prep school does not cost a player any years of college eligibility.