Jacksonville shutting down high school sports?

[Oldsmobull]

If USF football needs any Jacksonville running backs, better get up there quick before high school athletics end in Jax.  Things ain't looking good for high school sports in Florida.

http://jacksonville.com/news/metro/2011-03-12/story/no-money-available-duval-high-school-sports-says-board-chairman

[DELdaBull]

What about the educational budget as a whole?

[Oldsmobull]

Budgeting is pretty simple:  you got to have as much money coming in as going out or something has to give.  Looks like high school athletics might have to go in the river city of Jacksonville.

Remember the "Music Man":

"Trouble, oh we got trouble,

Right here in River City!

With a capital "T"

That rhymes with "P"

And that stands for Pool,

That stands for pool.

We've surely got trouble!

Right here in River City,

Right here!

Gotta figger out a way

To keep the young ones moral after school!

Trouble, trouble, trouble, trouble, trouble..."

[LakeBull]

Yeah, the only thing they can cut is High Schools sports.  Pols are slime balls.    >

[Guest nybullsfan]

A lot of student-athletes will be moving out of Duval County if this goes thru.

[Oldsmobull]

Private Jax schools like Bolles will be loading up with new athletes; they should win every state championship next year.  Schools outside Duval will keep FHSAA busy complaing about all the crazy stuff that will occur if Duval schools don't have sports next year.  Pink-slipped Duval student-athletes who can't play at private schools will be piled up on Jacksonville's street corners with the 12% unemployed Duval workers, or the kids will simply keep busy vandalizing Duval schools' athletic fields and facilities after school--if they stay in school!