Coach Fletcher has returned a sense of priorities to the athletic department at West. I, for one, am tired of the win at all cost philosophy that relegates academics to a distant second behind sports. Most of the young men who play for Coach Fletcher face slim to no chances of playing college ball. What they need is a decent education and, unfortunately, the miserable academic reputation West has is well deserved.

If you really want what is best for these young men, you should be more concerned about the SAT scores they post at the end of their high school careers than the plays they make on Friday night.