I came across this article today, and felt I should share it on this blog.
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1154208/index.htm
It outlines a “March Madness”-style tournament for High Schools that ESPN has organized called the
The ever-increasing popularity of collegiate football and basketball has already made high school athletics recruiting a hot topic.
But what is unique about this case is that ESPN is the one pushing the impetus for the change this might bring to high school athletics.
Some high school coaches in the article are quoted as saying top basketball players are foregoing playing for run-of-the-mill school basketball teams so they can enter this newly established tournament on an “elite” team.
My concern would be the further de-emphasis we are putting on education for top athletes.
Some might argue that high school athletics lost their innocence a long time ago, perhaps when HS football games began to be sponsored and shown on ESPN. But I say there is certainly no time like the present to try to bring things back to a reasonable level.
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