Going to extreme measures for child athletes

Like many other American teens, 14-year-old Nick Heras wants to be a professional quarterback someday.

Unlike most teens, he has left home and moved across the country to attend an elite athletic training program. His family foots a hefty bill for Nick's dreams: More than $50,000 a year.

The Haves and Have-Nots ... the rich get richer and poor stay that way

The University of Texas' groundbreaking $300 million, 20-year television deal with ESPN has generated considerable praise for the financial windfall it could create for the university. However, it's also fueled plenty of discussion about competitive balance, and the even bigger gap between the haves and have nots in big-time college athletics.

National Signing Day 2011: Which Top Recruiting Classes Will Suffer the Most?

Andy Rooney and Prayer
Andy Rooney said it on 60 MINUTES

I don't believe in Santa Claus, but I'm not going to sue somebody for singing a Ho-Ho-Ho song in December. I don't agree with Darwin, but I didn't go out and hire a lawyer when my high school teacher taught his Theory of Evolution.

Life, liberty or your pursuit of happiness will not be endangered because someone says a 30-second prayer before a football game.

Back when I was a boy a Coke was 5 cents, gasoline was 30 cents and No meant No!

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The Haves and Have-Nots ... the rich get richer and the poor stay that way

The University of Texas' groundbreaking $300 million, 20-year television deal with ESPN has generated considerable praise for the financial windfall it could create for the university. However, it's also fueled plenty of discussion about competitive balance, and the even bigger gap between the haves and have nots in big-time college athletics.

Recruiting advantage? What you say, NCAA? Fox Sports will now cut a deal with say, Alabama? This will cause another arms race among the college elite. And college is about education? Yeah, what fool believes that? Where does the NCAA fit into all this? Do they get a share of the $300 million? No, because the NCAA no longer controls college football. Television and conference commissioners do the talkin' for football at the FBS level.

It's all about the money and has nothing to do with education. And most people don't care. We now have colleges so that we can have football teams.

Television has also made national signing day a redneck circus.... and more profits for networks. But hey, it's about math, science and history, right?  Or maybe producing doctors, educators,  and missionaries instead of defensive tackles?  Naw.  Roll Tide, go 'Horns, gettem Ducks. 

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In over 40 years of coaching and being an athletics administrator, this video says it all about today's young athletes and their parents.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iymXdRQDISg&feature=player_embedded