Thread by @iowahawkblog

Fake team from real high school loses to real team from fake high school
complex.com/sports/bishop-…

I can't get over ESPN doing national broadcasts of high school football games, keep that shit on Friday night local TV highlights

Update: my headline should have been Fake Team From Fake High School Loses To Real Team From Fake High School

I regret the error

*IMG Academy is literally the Nick Bollettieri Tennis Camp for Boys Who Want To Football Good and Get Division 1 Scholarships Good Too

The place stands as a mighty institutional monument to America's insane overemphasis on sportsball

How to tell if you went to a fucked-up high school: when it literally has a "Post-Graduate Football Team"
imgacademy.com/boarding-schoo…

This isn't Friday Night Lights, it's a $60k per year underground laboratory in the tropics, staffed with ex-Soviet scientists tasked with transforming your teenager into Ivan Drago so he can get a call from Nick Saban

jfc

https://twitter.com/RyanSABC/status/1432739496051634179

fun fact: IMG Academy doesn't have a marching band, but they have cheerleaders..... from a private for-profit cheerleading academy high school
wsj.com/articles/how-a…

Nothing better than Homecoming Weekend at IMG, when all the alumni come back to town wearing their raccoon coats and waving their old tattered felt pennants, and break out singing the ol' alma mater

Oh, I'm sure if there were enough parents desperate enough to pay $80k / year for their kid to be a top-tier tuba player, IMG would have a marching band

https://twitter.com/b4dhome/status/1432751711593144322

I'm trying to figure the cost-benefit analysis of sending your kid to an $80k/year football academy to get a football scholarship at a $30k/year college