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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I guess some people see football as more important than things like the law, criminal behavior and even the promises one makes.
*sigh*
Post of the day imo
Heard that a lot at high school and even more at college (I knew a few football players). I usually said that if I did that, as a non football player, I would have been in jail right then.
I love football, but since my freshman year at college where I got to see first hand what goes on, I haven't been able to enjoy it like I used to. Which being from Nebraska is saying something.
You must have missed the first Batman movie with Beetleguise, and Jackwhack, those mimes broke the bank!! ;)
Judges hand down puffball sentences like this, then wonder why nobody 'respects the law'.
I'm guessing that you forgot your /sarcasm tag. :-)
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IMHO, public school athletics should be tossed out. The exorbitant insurance coverage rates, the expense of the equipment, the uniforms, the stadium (or playing field) etc.
There are plenty of community teams people could sign their kids up for if they wanted their kids involved in sports.
Schools piss off WAY too much time with announcing sports, pestering kids to join up, holding a weekly 'pep rally' having team members (and faculty) constantly dunning students to 'buy this' or 'buy that' to do the right thing and 'support the team'.
Schools used to stress an academic education. Now it's all health, fitness and behavior modification crapola with a bit of actual learning tossed in.
It's why most kids can tell you the 4 major food groups, but can't tell you the first 4 Presidents of the United States.
This is for who ever might read it i live in this back water town that they call kenton ohio where football rules over justice . I thought before these kids went to court they would get off thats how it works here. The poor boys who got hurt will never live a normal life but those 5 boys will why because they are football players and laws don't mean crap to them . Im so upset how that judge handle this case and so are a lot of ppl in this town so what ever you might read or hear this town is not split there are a lot of really pissed off ppl .
" I'm guessing that you forgot your /sarcasm tag."
Insofar as it reflects my opinion, you guess right.
Insofar as it reflects the opinion of school administrations in my experience, you guess wrong.
Your post is right on.
Many athletic expenses in the high schools are hidden in other parts of the budget.
Teacher substitute and travel expenses; hot water and lighting; facility maintenence; team, cheerleader, rooter transportaion; insurance; administrative time, extra security staff and other expensive items are often hidden in other parts of the school budget.
"I can't speak for this school, ..."
And I can't either.
My comments referred to typical public schools, the only kind existing in my local area or for that matter the entire multi-county area within 100 miles.
I should not have made the assumption that we were talking about private schools, however I would be curious about what percentage of alumni donations are plowed back into the athletic program.
Yep, he shouldn't have done it.
It'll vary from school to school, my high school didn't need to plow the money the football team made back into the program, since the program paid for itself, and then some.
I had friends who played on teams at other schools, and it varied to pouring in alot of to some schools putting nothing back in and depending on donations or "pay to play" schemes.
The big thing seems to be that alumni donations are often tied to the success or failure of the high school football (or baseball or basketball) team. If the team does well, and is in the papers, alumni donations go up, the team goes into decline, the donations go down (and the coach gets fired, this is why high school football coaches get canned, otherwise, no one would care if the team was crappy or not).
My high school has legendary football coach, a big time baseball program and big basketball program. If some of those players make it big, they always chip in some big buck donations back to the school.
In essence, most of the time with these high school sports, if it brings in money and is a factor in alumni donations or revenue, then your going to see some unsavory things.
Let me put it to you this way, my high school also had a big time track team and one of the better ones on the east coast, I doubt most of the teachers or students could name those kids or anyone would hold back a donation if the team suddenly started losing.
Had the driver of the car not been doing in excess of 70MPH and had he not been under the influence of marijuana he may well have avoided any adverse situation. The other drivers just slowed down and drove around the decoy.
Don't veer for deer. Everybody knows that.
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