I tend to agree with Brent on this one, its not really something to get carried away with. You know about 5 years ago our budget here in Abilene was way short, im talking about 300,000 short and they were talking about making athletes pay to play and all this other crap. But as it turned out they came away just fine and nobody was hurt. THe problem lies in the fact that the community doesn't want to support its schools, thats what it really comes down to. I know in Chapman thier "community" just voed to reject a local option budget that would have gave its board at least enough money to continue operating the way it had been, but of course the chapman members didn't want to pay. See to me that is just crap, I hear they could be in serious trouble and may have to shut another school down and fire 4 or 5 teachers but that of course is just rumors. Personally I don't think thats parents pay enough to send their children to school anyway. In Abilene I believe the tuituion for the whole year is like $65 or something like that. currently Abilene High School has like 400 students so you multiply that and you get something like $26,000 and the kid get to go to school all year. And the state has to fork over the entire rest of the budget. I turly believe in my heart that if our school district was suffering from the same problems others are that our community would pass a LOB, but who knows. THe point is that if this is really a concern for you and you think that a school is going to start cutting out athletics before a number of other things you are either crazy, or you live in a crappy school district and I suggest you move.