A. Some kids have trouble making hte adjustment from Jr High to HS so freshman, soph more grades are not as important as the grades from Jr/Sr yrs. also what was the college intrance requirments for this college u are talking about this also hold true, now look at the Div 1 players that are playing today that came form Jr Colleges alot of these kids were non predictors out of HS so that could be another reason why they were taken off the list of possible reqruits. THe HS player of the year in football has a 2.9 gpa but still scored high on the ACT so im sure there are other qb's in the country that have better gpa's but it doesnt seem to bother the schools reqruiting him

B. I think these kids that are being held back for athletic purposes are either being home schooled or attending private schools for the year they are being held back so this is no expense to the tax payers they are still getting their 4 yrs worth of "free" public eduacation