Reggie Bush's parents: any of us who have worked with kids from poor families who are outstanding athletes have had the unfortunate experience of dealing with their disgusting parents. Many regard their kids as future meal tickets for themselves and are aggressive and threatening to coaches who don't play their kids, don't coach their kids the way the parents have decided is correct, don't coddle their little darlings and so on. I was involved with the parents of a nine year old phenom (who later started for two years at USC) and was confronted by his father--backed up by two obvious gangbangers---demanding that we switch formations so his kid would get the ball more often. I never set foot in that area again, but all kinds of coaches can relate stories like that and worse. I've talked with many parents who seem to regard their kids as if they were farm animals who have to be fed and fattened so they can play ball. Kids are held back for as many as two years so that at 19 years old they are starting in high school---Casey Clausen, the "best qb in the country," who signed with Notre Dame before this, his senior year----is typical of the college sophomores who are still playing in high school. We will see how good this "kid" is this year as he faces Division 1A high schools in SoCal for the first time, after spending his first two years on an all star team that played in Division TWELVE and running up scores in the sixties and seventies. It was his parents who saw that he was held back for the sole reason that he would be better at sports if he was a few years older than his opponents. We've seen many parents who have crossed way over the line around here and we will see many more.