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I wouldnt play him...I guess I am a firm believer of grades come first. If your going to take the time to go thru 2 a days and fight to become a starter they its also your responsibility to keep your grades up ...its been that way since I can remember

Grades should come first. An overwhelming majority of high school football players will have put on their pads the last time when their senior season is over. You had better have something else planned for life after graduation other than remembering a few games in high school.

On the other hand, if there was no law regarding No Pass No Play, would you still have them not play? If passing is that important (and I am not saying that it isn't), then why wait for week 6? Why not have the head coach check every week. If a player's grades are passing, then they don't play that week's game. If Texas ended NPNP this year, would anyone then have the coach institute a voluntary version of it locally? How well would that go over?

It seems kind of hypocritical to say that grades are the only factor but then only at the 6 week level set by law. Either they are or they aren't and if they are, why wait for the state to mandate a student sit down?

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I was wondering about this same topic a little while ago. HF played WOS JV tonight and supposedly a few WOS varsity players that had failed were put on JV for the night. The WOS players dominated and help beat our JV badly. I was told they played mostly in the first half but the QB would hit the outside and was uncatchable! I wasn't there but the person who told me has no reason to lie. He was not participating but was a HF varsity player supporting the JV. Its probably legal to do but that doesn't make it right. If they were already on the JV that would be a different story. HF may have lost the game without their assistance. HF JV would probably not feel like they were cheated. No one will every know if HF JV could have won the game!

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Ok....here are my thoughts on the issue. We are in school primarily to get an education, regardless of what some people think. I know for a fact that points are give to athletes so they can be eligible to play. The teachers and the coaches are not doing these kids any favors by giving them points. When and IF they make it to college they will not survive. If the coaches are so worried about a players grades, they should make sure the player is taking the extra time needed to pass the class without any under the table help from the pressured teachers. No...these kids should not be able to play on JV. Obviously rather than being at football practice until 730 at night they should be home studying.

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Obviously rather than being at football practice until 730 at night they should be home studying.

That's exactly what Ross Perot thought when he forced HB72 down our throats in 1984. However, the kids did NOT stay at home and study. Many of them went home to empty, unsupervised homes due to their parents work schedule. The did NOT spend that time studying. They found other avenues to kill their time. There were no MAJOR gang problems in this state until after the passage of HB72 and its 6 week suspension of a kid from practice and competition. Thank God that Ann Richards had enough sense to see the idiocy in this and changed the period to 3 weeks and allowed the kids to continue to practice. The damage had already been done, though, and we nearly lost a generation of kids due to pie in the sky elitists who did not understand how things worked in the real world.

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So now its the coaches responsiblity to take care of kids who have no parents at home?????? Please......Extra Curricular activities are a privilige not a right. They are earned by keeping your grades up. That is probably why our countrys education level has dropped so far behind the rest of the world. Our priorities our out of order. These same kids will become nfl and still get arrested for drugs and other crimes. HMMMMM

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So now its the coaches responsiblity to take care of kids who have no parents at home?????? Please......Extra Curricular activities are a privilige not a right. They are earned by keeping your grades up. That is probably why our countrys education level has dropped so far behind the rest of the world. Our priorities our out of order. These same kids will become nfl and still get arrested for drugs and other crimes. HMMMMM

Our education is behind the rest of the world because EVERYONE in our nation has a right to be educated. This is not the case around the world. And yes, athletics provided a place for those kids to go where there was supervision and structure in their lives. When that was taken away from them, they found it elsewhere.

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.................I know for a fact that points are give to athletes so they can be eligible to play. The teachers and the coaches are not doing these kids any favors by......

It would be foolish to think that a no school ever gives a passing grade to certain players however it certainly is not a blanket statement. I read where Nederland lost a starter to grades and I think Ozen lost 3. Where were their points?

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