"You can be a football player and literally not go to class," one teenager told me. "The teachers treat them like golden eggs to cherish and hold."

Longtime guidance counselor John Lee Gillison said Big Red players deserve recognition because they're held to a higher standard. "Athletes, male and female, put a lot more time into school; maybe not academically, but they do a lot," he said. "Yeah, they're privileged. But they've earned it."



HAHAHAHA, wow. really, guidance counselor? you sound like the one from Mt. Pleasant. don't these people ever grow up?