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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Either your kid goes to a football academy or that didn't happen. If your kid does go to a school where the whole team gets recruited, the odds are very good that the high school coach also recruited[/quote]

OP here. No, he does not.  It's a independent prep school.  
Not making this up.

In several cases, these kids have not even played a lot of football.  One is not even a starter. One is primarily a track and field athlete.   What they are is super athletic and tall/big.  In one case that I know well, the coach has basically said: "i know you can do the work at this university and pay the bill and we we can teach you the football piece."
It makes you realize how hard it is to fill the football rosters at some schools (Ivy and similar) both with kids who can do the academic work.  It's been wild to see.  These kids are completely middle-of-the-pack academically at this tough high school. [/quote]

yeah, that didn't happen. There are football factory schools (including very academically respected independent schools) that send loads of kids to ivies, but those kids are smart and good football players. [/quote]

Read my post.  We're saying the same thing.   :roll: 
A 3.5 is middle-of-the-pack at this tough school.  These kid aren't dumb.  That's the point of my post.  The coaches know they can do the academic work.  They're certainly not the top 20% in the class or the ones taking the top rigor classes but they will completely be able to do the Ivy level work well.  And they're athletic enough to play the football.  
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If they're working hard both in the classroom and on the field, at a very rigorous school, then please, tell me, why don't they deserve to go to a good school as much as your one-dimensional kid? The difference between a 3.5 and 4.0 at St. Albans just describes the difference between choices and well-balanced kids vs. narrow strivers. Why would the latter continue more to a community? Let me answer that: they don't.[/quote]

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