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[QUOTE="supp, post: 1846018, member: 702"]
The whole Melo thing really shocked me.  At least in the past, and I know I am overgeneralizing, foreign kids were less of a headache on the academic front in part because the preparation for college was usually more rigorous elsewhere (and it largely didn't matter where...anyone who's spent any time abroad can likely attest to that).  Foreign kids were also less of a headache because those kids came to the US to go to college rather than just audition for the NBA.  It's interesting that the moment these foreign kids started to come here for high school too, that all changed.  Not just Melo but Diagne now too.  At first I thought Diagne's situation was simply the NCAA being hard@sses about his Senegalese transcript but the series of poor decisions that followed would indicate that some of the problems fall at his feet and the feet of  his advisers here.  If those kids had any desire to be educated, it's as if high school here beats it out of them.

The reality is that American high schools are not that great comparatively and high school athletes especially are poorly prepared for college, for a variety of reasons. But they are far from the only ones who shouldn't be in college, as you say.  The institutions are broken, not necessarily the kids in them.
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