[Les Paul]

I’m going to be the guy to say don’t do it because of sports. My son was the stud starting QB and MLB in jr high. 6ft 190 coming into hs. 2nd largest class in Texas. We had visions of D1. That all changed first game his freshman year. Broken right thumb, broken left arm, casts to his elbow. The hardest part was not being able to play guitar. After 6 games out, casts came off and he started the last 2 games. Sadly he’d lost the killer instinct. Soph year they moved him to tight end and FS. 2nd to last game of year starting QB gets hurt, 2nd teamer also hurt. He hadn’t played QB all year. Put him in and he drives the team 90 yards running or passing for every play winning the game with seconds to go against a team that had 3 future D1 guys. The crowd was like why hasn’t he been playing all year at qb? Season over he said FI. Never looked back and never regretted it. Ten years later nobody but parents remember those last 2 years because they sucked. It killed me and I couldn’t even go to games anymore. Baseball was a similar ending. So he became editor of the school paper went to state in speech and debate his jr and Sr year. His bands flourished, they won several area wide battle of the bands, had a cd professionally produced out his soph year. Started giging etc etc. And believe me there are groupies even at that age. Graduates top ten in a class of 300. Goes to UT graduates in 4 years, no student loans, gets his masters at UT. Interned his Sr year for smaller company there in Austin which went from 200-2000 employees. Gets married, buys nice house etc. In the IT field with another company and is a project manager over 20 engineers making the big bucks at 30. Ready to get a band back together so he says.