Great read about the energetic Coach O and what he is bringing to the D. http://lsu.247sports.com/Article/LS...avon-Godchaux-is-happy-with-the-hire-36116460
About five years of really tightening up on the standards to play football at the college level would make a world of difference in the world, not just in sports. Might be painful, but when those 5th and 6th grades start hearing that the high school star could not play college, it would wake them up. Not a one shot thing, need several years, but it would work. No question. Set the bar as high as you want, it would work. Just takes the will.
It's happening, slowly . . . as it must. Beginning August 1, 2016, NCAA Division I will require 10 core courses to be completed prior to the seventh semester (seven of the 10 must be a combination of English, math or natural or physical science that meet the distribution requirements). These 10 courses become "locked in" at the start of the seventh semester and cannot be retaken for grade improvement. Beginning August 1, 2016, it will be possible for a Division I college-bound student-athlete to still receive athletics aid and the ability to practice with the team if he or she fails to meet the 10 course requirement, but would not be able to compete. Proposition 48 requires that a combination of core course grades and test scores be achieved to participate in college football. If a recruit's GPA is higher, he can get away with lower test scores and vice versa. Test scores are carefully monitored. The abuse since Prop 48 has been high school teachers giving high grades to athletes that can't score high on the testing in order that they can play college football. Most NCAA clearance problems result from suspicious high school grades and course credits. The high school and the teachers must be held more accountable for the NCAA tightening of qualifications to work.
Didn't Kenny Hilliard have reading problems coming into LSU? It's possible unless he is just a moron straight out of Idiocracy, and lazy.
Straight A's in all high school courses...ok, maybe a B or two. Certainly nothing less than a C, and some HIGH mark on either SAT or ACT. No slack. Kids would catch on. Very quickly!
