this is a recent poll bill the pew foundation or robert wood johnson foundation -- 25% of parents think that their kid will make it to the pros. that's insane. but that also explains their obsession, their obsession with their kids, the pressure they put on kids, the pressure to win at all cos, the pressure they put on coaches. to the degree too many places, academics is simply an obstacle to overcome, to find a loophole to be gotten around. academics should be the mainstay of life. it should be the other way around. and it's not just texas, football, basketball, it's basketball or squash, fencing, that's become the cocurricular activity, the important activity in the academics are shunted to the side. and we are the only culture in the world that does this. we're the only society. the only country that looks to high school and college for sports entertainment. no other country does that. and it's been there at the beginning and i don't know how we'll get rid of it, but that's a bizarre thought. that sports is playing such a consuming role at our schools, at a time when, as we all know