re: Last Chance U on Netflix

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But that's part of their upbringing.

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which goes out the window at this stage. In HS they probably didn't have adult authority figures to guide them, so why should they put forth effort? But that's in the past. Now it's go time...they have a hardass football coach telling them to go to class, they have tutors to help them study, and they have an academic advisor who tells them exactly when their classes are, how many they can miss, when they have assignments, and even coaches them up with practice questions before the exams. At this point, there's no need for them to be flunking out of school, regardless of their upbringing.

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And calling them lazy is unfair. They bust their arse on the practice field and weight room, for the most part

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Well, they're still lazy in the other half. I mean, all any of them want is to GTFO of community college. To do that they have to play good ball, and don't flunk. Them going hard in practice is great but neglecting the other 50% of the equation is still lazy.

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nobody in their life has held them accountable for their school work, including the high schools they attended.

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Right, and like I said above that is irreleavnt since they now have more help and guidance than most normal students get at great colleges.

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After they've been told for 10+ years how talented they were and how much $$ they were going to make in the NFL

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and now they're at a crap school in scooba Mississippi. If that's not a wakeup call that they have made some questionable choices up to now and they need to fix their path, I don't know what is.

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Sure, someone should have sat them down when they were 13 ro 14 and told them they needed to take school seriously, but for most of them nobody did, or nobody held them accountable because they were needed on the football field.

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which again is irrelvant to the right here and now. All that matters now is 1)play football well 2)maintain a C average.

That's it. All the $$$ they want, it starts by simply going to class. And some of them can't even be bothered to do that. It's a choice that they, as 18-20 year old young adults, make on their own. Not because they didn't have a parent in the picture during childhood.