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[Date] 1 year 17 weeks ago [Body] This isn't a situation where she is stopping him because she's not a fan of the Spartans or because she's an insane person. She obviously has legitimate reasons to say that she doesn't want her son at Michigan State. It can't be the academics - while they're not on par with Michigan's, for all of the blustering we do about school quality, Michigan State is not a BAD school as far as an education goes. We don't like to look at the world of college athletics where the boys are given star status on campus, can get their hands on any drug they want including performance enhancing drugs, have access to alcohol in quantities that would kill fish in Lake Superior, and they don't have to show up to classes or be able to write and read at a level higher than a fifth grader. They are boys, after all. Most of them have never had to be responsible for anything other than staying eligible and working out. Sure, there are exceptions. But McDowell probably isn't one of them. She might be a helicopter parent but I don't see the vilification part. She doesn't want her son in the environment that she witnessed at Michigan State. Maybe he will be fine, and thrive. Maybe he will be responsible. But who knows her child better than she does? So if she tells him that he has to take out loans and care about his education because he will be paying for it later, instead of flying through on a free ride, maybe that kind of personal responsibility will entice him to commit to the whole aspect of attending college, and not just his athletic ability. I would like to think that if I was in her situation, I would do right by my child, and not feel like I had to do right by a football team before that. [Title] 
I don't really get it
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