[Bob Seger]

I have all the respect in the world for JJ Jude . He is an outstanding Jr. high school football player. What I can't stand is all the stupid talk of DI, DII, DII whatevers. Let the boy play football and hopfully choose a college that he is in love with and wants to attend. I have seen way too may athletes choose a college only because they were promised money and everything else only to hate it when they got there. They end up dropping out only to be left not knowing what to do. I understand that many kids can't attend college without a scholarship but what good is it when the kid is misserable and doesn't want to be there. Athletics are great and can take you places if it is the places you want to be. So can academics. Concenrate on both. You never know when your going to need to call on either one to get you where you want to go.
Hopefully Judd will get many offers as well as the other fine players for Johnson Central and they will have an opportunity to choose which college is best for them.

Great words of wisdom tradition. One downfall to these message boards is that overly exuberant fans sometimes can lead an athlete to believe that he may be better than he actually is. Two things can happen. 1) the player gets disapointed and frustrated,feels he has failed to live up to everyone elses expectations if the big offers dont come, and ends up not playing at all. 2) Goes to a particular college because everyone else thinks that is where he should go, and ends up not getting to play and is miserable.

Chances are you'll never have the need to call on either one. 99.9% of them will never make enough to buy a cup of coffee to pick playing over the not playing option. The not playing option is way more lucrative in the long run.