[Willie Green]

"I wanted to end my athletic career on my terms, not someone else's terms," Hill said. "If I never get into a game, it won't be a failure. I wanted to try. Well, I wanted to try again."

"I coulda had class. I coulda been a contender. I coulda been somebody, instead of a bum, which is what I am. Let's face it."
--Terry Malloy (Marlon Brando) to his brother, Charley (Rod Steiger), in the back of a cab

This article is just another left-wing hit-piece, a lowering of standards to accommodate the less talented. Whiners who can't accept their own limitations and continue to sob "if I only had a chance". The world is full of 'em.

[BigBobber]

This article is just another left-wing hit-piece, a lowering of standards to accommodate the less talented. Whiners who can't accept their own limitations and continue to sob "if I only had a chance".

No, you're off by 180 degrees. The college coaches would love to give these kids a chance. It's the clipped-hair mean-faced women who have been promoted into positions of power in the athletic departments who make them say "No!".

Thinking someone working out in a "gym" is going to be noticed and given a scholarship is absurd. That's like saying someone doing his homework in the library might get noticed and offered an academic scholarship.

[Conservateacher]

Wrong! Wrong! Wrong!
This is about the elimination of thousands of spots on teams that no longer exist.