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Where are the adults in this situation who can get beyond/see beyond their own selfishness and immaturity? Who will do the right thing because it is best for the kid, even if it lessens their personal pocketbooks?

They thankfully do exist and their actions better not only the youth in our communities but the communities themselves. It's called giving, not taking.

Sure, it's a kid from the East Coast in the following but sadly there are plenty names of West Coast talents who could be inserted here.

Ledo having second thoughts about PC? No surprise there
Bill Reynolds
Providence Journal
February 3, 2011

I first met Ricky Ledo a year ago.

It was in the small basketball office at St. Andrew’s School in Barrington, but already he was at the epicenter of the basketball world, one of those kids who was anointed early, romanced early, recruited early, placed in the fishbowl early.

The year before he had jumped into the spotlight by scoring 31 points at the Ryan Center, taking a state final high school game between Hendricken and Mount Pleasant and turning it into a personal showcase. It was all display that afternoon, the size, the athleticism, the scoring ability, the promise that one day Ledo’s talents were going to take him to big games in big arenas.

On the day that I first met him he was being courted by some of the biggest basketball schools in the country, places like Kansas and Syracuse, in addition to PC and URI. He said that he was just starting to realize what it all meant, as if he’d had a glimpse of a world so different from the one he had grown up in.

But that’s only part of Ledo’s story, and in many ways, not even the most important part.

Or as Mike Hart, the St. Andrew’s coach said a year ago, “Basketball is not the issue. It’s the other stuff...”

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