quote:Originally posted by Niner's Parent:
Many things on this board that are posted are heresay. I happen to know the family and the school. I saw the GPA posted on PG as well as others in my area. The GPA is now off and an ACT is posted. I am sorry people, the kid is not special ed or has not been in the past. He just plain doesnt have it upstairs and coming from a small and I mean very small high school to then attend a very major univeristy where there may be 300 people in a classroom, is not a smart move for the kid. He is going to obviously try and maintain grades just so he can be on the field to play. That is sending the wrong message to my kid and this is what this thread was about. My kids is going to college to have success in the classroom, which in turn reflects the life he will live later and how he will eventually support his family. Baseball is right up there in first. You gotta have both.
So now he makes the team and pass by the skin of his teeth to play. Four year later, what is he gonna do. Wow I have my degree in my hand, I didnt learn jack ****, now put me in the world to work with what I was taught. Hell I made it on the ball field, but the real working world is another story. He may end up busing tables. Is that what you go to college for?
And we all know his chances of being drafted.
I don't think the purpose of this website is to come to discredit any player, coach, school, regardless of not mentioning names.
Regardless of you knowing the player or not, to state he has nothing upstairs and saying he isn't going to make it, now or later on, about your conversation with the principal reveals to me, that you should be more concerned with what goes on in your own house, not someone elses. Who are you to judge what happens to others?
I know of many circumstances that could make your head spin of where kids got into schools they shouldn't have. Doesn't look very fair to my kid either, but as a responsible parent we discussed the fact that this is what happens in life, in just about everything you do, not just baseball, try to deal with it the best you can and learn to be a better person because of it. And actually, it's none of your business son.
I am not always understanding of things that happen myself, and I may have messed up saying things I shouldn't have, but not on a public forum. Ultimately, unless it did something to hurt me or my family, it is not my business.
Unless you were there when the coach offered this player an opportunity, I take everything as hearsay.
Chairman,
