First of all, it means something when I hear Barry Sanders, a player I grew up watching, has a son who is about to play in college now. It means I'm getting older.
However, just read this, it sort of angers me. Sanders commits to Stanford, a great school, that I hope he gets in to. A Stanford degree should do wonders for him.
http://espn.go.com/college-sports/recruiting/football/story/_/id/7436402/espu-150-barry-j-sanders-commits-stanford-cardinal
What angers me is that he is committing to this school without knowing if he has been accepted. It's a two part process. You have to get in to the school and be offered to be on the team. He's got half of that done. You shouldn't announce anything until both things are accomplished because the getting into Stanford should be the most important thing he is celebrating, not just being on their football team. The education matters. I assume that Mr. Sanders is well educated. I am not here saying that he should be punished. My point is that society seems to overlook the fact that athletes need to get into a school academically as well as athletically. Some student athletes are actually turned away for academics.
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