New York Times: High School Football Good, Everything Else Bad

How do you spell lazy strawman? A-M-A-T-U-E-R-A-T-H-L-E-T-I-C-S:

↵↵In Smith Center, and in countless small towns across the country, high school football is under way and offers an antidote to big-time college athletics. Look no further than the recent headlines about coaches behaving badly (Louisville’s Rick Pitino), a sucker punch (Oregon’s LeGarrette Blount) and a near-championship season wiped out for academic fraud (Memphis).

↵↵This sort of thing is all quaint and nice, and being from a relatively small community that takes its high school football very seriously, I can relate. But the fact is that there are just as many bad apples throughout high school football as there are in college and the pros, it’s just that because it’s high school football, nobody cares. Sports are sports, basically, and no amount of nostalgic yearning is going to change that.