He’s going to Alabama. His mother wanted him to go to LSU, because she was insulted that ‘Bama head coach Nick Saban talked about football and nothing but football and said nothing about academics when he called on the highly recruited defensive back at his mother’s home.
Saban is a football coach, not a biology professor. And Collins is being recruited for football, not because he sequenced the DNA of a garter snake for his senior science project. It’s not Saban’s job to talk academics. By the time Collins gets to campus, even if he’s not a legal adult by age, he will be a moral adult such that he is expected to handle his own academic affairs, in concert with counselors, advisors and certain faculty members who are there to guide any interested students in their academic affairs. It’s not the job of the football coaches to be guidance counselors.
If his mother is worried about academics, then she should know that the latest USNWR rankings (problematic as they are) slot Alabama at 75th and LSU at 128th. Even if it were the other way around, it’s not like a sheepskin from the 128th ranked school which happens to be the flagship public university in Deep South state won’t any fewer doors than one from the 75th ranked school which also happens to be the flagship public university in a Deep South state. That is, if Collins never gets to shake Roger Goodell’s hand on a future draft day.
I’m talking about this now, for a month and a half from now, the dork in Orlando with a fax machine will be whining about graduation rates and racial disparities and basketball coaches not “graduating” their players.
UPDATE 1/31
Mom is officially on the warpath. I don’t see this ending well, at all.
And Collins is being recruited for football, not because he sequenced the DNA of a garter snake for his senior science project.
Nor will he do it while in college, most probably never.
By the time Collins gets to campus, even if he’s not a legal adult by age, he will be a moral adult such that he is expected ….
Has a negro under the age of 18 ever entered college? I did, but I was a late birth when they still allowed them to go to school. Got arrested for underage drinking my first week of college ….. yeah this story involves negroes but I wasn’t with them, they were the PA ABCC …. and the Head RA had to come pick me and a few others (us under 18 like to drink really sdmart kids ….. LOL
Some of the Freshmen in my dorm were still 17 when the fall semester started. A scant few didn’t turn 18 until the spring semester, and one didn’t turn 18 until a few days after finals in May. That would have made them a year ahead of the usual schedule. In my high school graduating class, the oldest was someone who turned 19 in February before graduation, and the youngest was someone who turned 17 just two weeks before graduation.
More and more parents are “redshirting” their sons, i.e. keeping them out of KG until a year after they should, to give them a sports advantage in high school.
Clarification …..
Has a negro under the age of 18 ever entered college? I did, but I was a late birth when they still allowed them to go to school.
LOL …. I am not a negro. West By God Virginia White boy heading back into the city from the burbs on the train after a very short shopping trip.