Yes that is precisely what I think and now I think he has had enough. Like I said maybe he had a wake up call so to speak and doesnt want to do it anymore. Of course this is jusy my opinion but you will not convince me he is a villian or character from a bad football movie. This is the life of a college football coach and it may have caught up to him. A football coaches job is to get players in by the standards the institution allows to win football games. He did that well-maybe too well.
I agree with that. This goes back to the issue the NCAA has...they can either take the talented guys w/ any/all of a shady past, below average learning abilities, lack of concern about education, etc. or the NFL will start up a baseball styled minor league. Or Juco Leagues will become the best brand, at least from an on field stanpoint, of college football.
As much as it bothers us, college football would become totally irrelevant if the NFL started up a minor league.
Of course there's another side of the coin and maybe it's the root of the problem: elementary, middle and high school teachers can't fail anybody anymore. There's so much pressure to graduate kids and it's supposedly the teacher's fault if a kid doesn't give a crap or is actually not smart enough to graduate or progress to the next grade that there are a lot of undeserving people slipping, or more aptly put, pouring through the cracks.
This problem persists into college, too. I had a professor give a great lecture during my sophomore year of college. He asked us to stand up and number ourselves. The count came to 45. He then told 30 of us to sit down (randomly, though I think he would have actually named names if it wouldn't have cost him his job). He then said "there are now 15 people standing in this room. I taught most of the people in this room as freshmen in addition to this year. By my estimation, there are 15 people out of 45 in this room who should be in college."
He encouraged everbody to evaluate whether or not they really wanted to be there or whether they were doing it for a mother, father, grandparent, etc. He talked about how he would love to fail 30 of our 45 (since I got an A I hope he wasn't referring to me!). He talked about how having a bachelor's degree wasn't worth crap anymore because so many kids end up with a degree (kids that don't deserve it) and that it devalues the degree to the point that to really seperate yourself you need to get a masters.
That's how these guys get out of elementary school, high school and eventually college. Obviously this doesn't go on at ND or Stanford but I'm sure it goes on, to some degree, at Florida, USC, etc.--even among the non-athlete student population.
