A sobering story

In the words of one of our former presidents (hard as that is to believe), "Rarely is the questioned asked: Is our children learning?" We would add the word 'what' after the colon.

Here's an insightful story, fortunately not based in California, on what some people will do to survive/prosper/call it whatever you wish. But this isn't just pertinent to the coaching profession as there are plenty of grifters across the vocational spectrum, Wall Street in particular. At least most coaches are honorable.

Coach Bernard Wright's talent trap
Gus Garcia-Roberts
Miami New Times
March 31 2011

The team that jogged onto a Fort Lauderdale basketball court for the regional quarterfinal playoff wearing baggy silver and blue jerseys sure didn't look like a high school squad. Their center was 6'8". Four of their guards were over 6'5". The squad had reserves coming off the bench that were 6'6" or 6'7".\

To Rick Medvin, head coach of the opposing Fort Lauderdale Christian High boys' squad — on which the tallest player was a 6'3" center — it must have felt like something from the Twilight Zone: "Attack of the Monsters From Miami." "All I remember is they were big," he says, sounding a bit dazed three years after that game in February 2008...

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