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Originally Posted by cmccuist
It's a classic symptom of everyone covering for his bad behavior based on his athletic abilities.
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Actually, it's a classic symptom of crap parenting. Most times one or both parents are living an extremely self-centered lifestyle, the kid/s have an extremely tough, uphill battle to end up anywhere
near stable in college and thereafter.
The guy who was the best athlete in my h.s. had great parents, and I truly don't know how much college ball he played... may have had a partial baseball scholarship... but he was very well-balanced and is to this day. He was athletic director at App. State for a good while. Very solid guy, with a solid family of his own... still married to his h.s. sweetheart, too.
It's the parenting... or in the case of the guy you describe, the lack of it.