Posted on 08/19/2006 10:00:33 AM PDT by sonsofliberty2000
KENTON, Ohio (AP) -- It was intended to be a prank: steal a decoy deer, place it on a country road and watch as motorists swerved to avoid it. It ended with two teenagers suffering serious injuries when their car hit the decoy and rolled into a ditch. When a judge ruled this week that two boys -- both high school football players -- can complete the football season before they serve 60-day sentences at a juvenile detention center, it caused a division in this northwest Ohio city. On one side are those who say allowing Dailyn Campbell, a 16-year-old quarterback, and 17-year-old teammate Jesse Howard to play shows that football players get preferential treatment. On the other are those who say either the boys deserve another chance or that they will stay out of trouble if they're part of the team.
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The were part of the team and they didn't stay out of trouble.
High School football is more important than the 2 girls.
"On one side are those who say allowing Dailyn Campbell, a 16-year-old quarterback, and 17-year-old teammate Jesse Howard to play shows that football players get preferential treatment."
and if they weren't football players but were members of the chess club, would the same rules apply??
IMHO, these guys just learned that as long as they play, they get preferential treatment..they should be required to foot the bill for all medical treatment at the very least and at the most, pay for treatment, be banned from football AND spend some time in the slammer..
Suffering brain damage is more than "serious injury." Not only should they not be allowed to play football, they should be serving real time.
60 days in juvy conveniently scheduled around their football games. Unbelievable.
Ahhh feetsbawl. The state sanctioned minstrel show! One step above street mimes in popularity, and almost as usefull!
As Reader's Digest would say concerning this judge's ruling: "That's Outrageous!".
These two kids nearly kill two other people and get to play the season, and then serve their time.
At a local school we had two kids test positive for drugs and they will miss 3 weeks worth of games.
It's called accountability.
I forgot, it's not just missing the games, they can't even practice with the team during those 3 weeks.
"I don't know why it's about football players. Why isn't it about student council or track?" Howard asked. "He admitted what he did and he faced the consequences like a young man should."
His father should be jailed for stupidity as well. He's trying to make his son out to be a victim, like football players are discriminated against. Any other student would've had to face the consequences now. Anyone who has ever gone to school knows the football players get preferential treatment, even the ones at schools who lose every game.
At the very least. I'm surprised they haven't been shot yet. I would have.
Today, the perpetrators are considered "victims."
I'd like to see these 2 guys spend the next 60 days on bedpan patrol at the local hospital. A good intro to pain & suffering seems in order. And I wouldn't let these guys near a football game until the injured kids are able to attend the games themselves.
Creating new Lawrence Philips and Maurice Clarettes.
I don't know about you, but I don't know many street mimes that can bring in the kind of money that football can.
This decision was more about money then anyone cares to admit.
""I've never seen anything that has been so much an issue in the community," said Arch Rodgers, principal of 670-student Kenton High School. "The worst part is this has drug out so long and the longer it drug out, the more it created friction in the community."
"Drug out", "drug out"?!?
And you're the 'principal' Arch? What kind of English usage is that? How about this principal Arch,
".. this has dragged out so long and the longer it drags out...
Sheesh, maybe that's one of the problems with the school and these kids - YOU'RE a freaking moron.
Or maybe you're "drugged out".
"This decision was more about money then anyone cares to admit."
Most high school football programs are NOT money makers when all the expenses are factored in.
Football and basketball are, however, the most important thing in our schools.
I can't speak for this school, but in my old high school (and I live in NYC, not even one of these HS football crazy towns), it was the biggest draw.
The school actually could chart out and predict future revenue (from alumni donations and other things) based on the sports programs success.
I had never even thought that a high schools alumni donations were linked to a football team.
And I went to a private school, however, in my school, these 2 idiots would have been kicked off the team, the coaches attitude was always the team comes first, and anyone can be replaced....anyone.
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