This admissions crap is going to get us killed one day... Dade Football players does not equal Rhodes Scholars...
Admissions for us are a pain in the **** but come on man... We're talking about high school. I mean, if these kids can't do basic learning in high school, why in the **** should they get a free ride to a good educational institution followed on by an opportunity to make millions in the NFL. These kids should be working as hard in the classroom as they are on their **** facebook and twitter accounts!
And these coaches that let these kids slip through the cracks without pushing them to do better and knock out their SAT/ACT should be held accountable as well.
You have a good point but it isn't always the coaches and/or the kids.
For example when I played we got out from practice/weightlifting at around 8:30, and that was the earliest time we ever got out. Most of the time it was well after 9. By the time you get home and shower its **** near 11 and you haven't even eaten yet or had time to sit down and open a book. And then you have to be up at 6 am to go to school and do it all over again. And that was 4 days a week. On Friday you have the game and if you play at 7:30, by the time the game is over and you get back to the locker room or whatever it usually well past 11 pm.
I say all that to say that everybody wants these dudes to be scholars but yet place demands on their time regular students don't have. Much less if they're highly recruited. Constant phone calls, constant visits to your house, them all wanting you to take trips to their campus, etc. Where is all this time for studying? Most nights if I wanted to do any HW I was up till 2 in the morning.