http://sports.espn.go.com/ncaa/news/story?id=5372984
Two points to bring up here.
1st: Bama's Coach Grant is the first reference within the article. That one caught me off guard. I'm glad to see it.
2nd: The premise is that before 1 July there is some how no good way for a kid to make a sound decision as to where they should attend school. Poppy-Cock. Double Poppy-Cock in fact. And here's why.
I admit that a 100% all-knowing decision can not be made before then, but then it is equally the truth that one can't be made afterwards either. Consider a kid who committed to Pete Carrol and USC on 1 July of 2009. Some of those kids were jobbed, but we accept that as part of the game, not tragedy.
Consider what is not magically discovered on July the 1st. Is the school a good academic choice? Is the Schoool/Program one that you aspire to be a part of? Can these two factors reward my hard work with getting to my post-playing days goals? Will I have the means to attend.
Are these not the same questions that virtually ever student, athletic or not, builds a decision upon? As parents, if we could answer YES to all of these questions, would we not raise our sons and daughters to love our school from the craddle, with the intent that they attend our school? Would this make us ignorant and evil? No. It makes us smart parents, who have achieved the enviable feat of seeing that our child gets a good College Education.
So I ask, what is magical or necessary about any date, much less 1 July after their Junior year?
Two points to bring up here.
1st: Bama's Coach Grant is the first reference within the article. That one caught me off guard. I'm glad to see it.
2nd: The premise is that before 1 July there is some how no good way for a kid to make a sound decision as to where they should attend school. Poppy-Cock. Double Poppy-Cock in fact. And here's why.
I admit that a 100% all-knowing decision can not be made before then, but then it is equally the truth that one can't be made afterwards either. Consider a kid who committed to Pete Carrol and USC on 1 July of 2009. Some of those kids were jobbed, but we accept that as part of the game, not tragedy.
Consider what is not magically discovered on July the 1st. Is the school a good academic choice? Is the Schoool/Program one that you aspire to be a part of? Can these two factors reward my hard work with getting to my post-playing days goals? Will I have the means to attend.
Are these not the same questions that virtually ever student, athletic or not, builds a decision upon? As parents, if we could answer YES to all of these questions, would we not raise our sons and daughters to love our school from the craddle, with the intent that they attend our school? Would this make us ignorant and evil? No. It makes us smart parents, who have achieved the enviable feat of seeing that our child gets a good College Education.
So I ask, what is magical or necessary about any date, much less 1 July after their Junior year?
