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Message: [QUOTE="hjoerring, post: 3494747, member: 3630"] Going on the advise of the poster I read the article from start to finish and, I'm not sure what to think. It is certainly well written. But does it say much. In the end, it seems to put the blame on the High School kid and their family for not being sophisticated enough to see through a well polished and scripted process that is intended to accomplished precisely that of hailing the young wo/man. Even as he glossed over these institutional indecencies, being an institutional man, he let them escape to catch and discipline the small fish. His romance with the 'student athlete' is far too much for me to swallow. His plug for the (academic) elite institutions is too much (think how well stanford sell itself by the empty(?) ritual of informing a recruit that the waiting is over-- you have been approved. Wow. How many recruits have been send up and turned away? Unless he is willing to acknowledged that these athletes are working and that they picked the coaches who they think can deliver them to the next level, he is being dishonest. When there are serious questions about how much taxes are paid by corporations, politicians, etc., it is really overkill to threaten the athlete with taxes and other factors that obviously have more consequences for the poorer half. What is to be done? He had his fingers on it when he briefly mentioned that the P5 Programs are just fine with the new suggestion. I wonder why. And I will leave un-examine here the fact that a good number of these students are coming from environments in which such attention have been more negative than good (lies). [/QUOTE]

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