Deion Sanders' HS FB players get in reporter's face

And the number of kids in all those sports you mentioned -- including basketball -- who will ever be good enough to make a living at their sport is exceedingly small. Certainly far less than all those who think they will be good enough to make a living at their sport.

And the number of kids good enough to make money at their sports at high school age or younger is way, way smaller than that (including gymnastics, swimming and tennis kids).

 

Prime Prep lost its opener 50-6.

 

Bush league across the board...the assistant, the players, all the way to Deion -- who at the very least should have stepped in at the start of this thing and dealt with it. (or is it too much to ask him to address it at all).

 

This pleases me.

 

It is far too much to ask of him because that would require him not being an arrogant dick.

 

There are certain laws that require kids, such as the Olsen Twins when they were kids, that required tutors to be provided on their sets, and they were strictly limited in the amount of time they could spend on the job.

For the other sports you mentioned, those are individual sports, with the team aspects not as emphasized, as opposed to football and basketball, which are fully team events. Fans have more of their lives wrapped up in the teams, and are more willing to overlook obstacles that interfere with winning, such as academics. Which is why you rarely hear of an illiterate gymnast.

 

Same here.
I hope they never win a game.
But I don't think it's possible for Deion to feel humility.
He's had so many chances to display that measure of grace.

 

Deion's academy seems no different than the AAU basketball teams, football scouting combine services or baseball academies that spring up from time to time promising parents their child will be scouted by colleges or the pros, thus turning said parents into check-writing machines. These same parents probably also balk at spending for SAT prep classes, academic coaching or anything else that might make a difference in the classroom.

 

It's different because it purports to be a school and replace other education rather than an AAU team or those other things that are done in addition to education.

 

Guess the other team brought a little more than a local news camera crew to the game.

 

Deion's recent record of ''mentoring the youth'' is horrible.
I don't know why anyone would trust their kid in his hands.

 

Because they're blinded by the name.