Saturday, June 23, 2007

Whine Culture

Friday night lights are lure enough for young football players, the Supreme Court said Thursday in a decision that upholds limits on high school sports recruiting.

The high court ruled in a dispute between a Tennessee athletic association and a football powerhouse, the private Brentwood Academy near Nashville [see High School Sports Recruiting Limited]

If you wake up looking for trouble it's not hard to find, is it? 

My first response is WHAT IN THE HELL is the SCOTUS doing arbitrating this dispute?  I agree with the decision, but as is usually the case with the high court, they left much ambiguity.  For instance, had they ordered that the parents who brought this suit  be spayed and neutered, and their children made wards of the state so as to escape the pernicious culture of whining to the government at each bump in life's road that living with them fostered, the case would have had a salutary component.  A ruling that the lawyer who enabled the suit be Nifonged - stripped of his law license and subjected to community-wide hatred, ridicule, and  toilet papered house, was also in order.  

Bastards.

2 comments:

Howard said...

As a parent with children involved in high school sports let me tell you that the recruiting has basically destroyed competition in LA Football. A doormat shit school for twenty years (Birmingham High) has suddenly become city 4A Champs only because a new coach knew where all the Youth Football all-stars were playing and promptly recruited them. Do the bus riding players go to school at all? Are they being "guided" through a cinch class list? I don't know for sure, but I can guess. The upside for Birmingham High student body? The sudden fearsome rep of the football team has translated into far higher grade averages, an almost doubling of attendence for the rest of the students and a huge increase in those bound for college. And BTW, Birimingham is killing, and I mean killing, everyone in the city. They won their last City Championship game 45 to 7. Come on.

Rodger the Real King of France said...

Good. But wtf is the supreme court dragged into what ought to be a local issue, settled by locals?

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