Elton Camp Poet Rhyme

Sports Scandals--What May Be Next

Sports Scandals—What May Be Next

By Elton Camp

It’s time that sports gets cuts down to size
For it isn’t the important thing to emphasize

Schools should supply an academic education
And not to mindless sports make an abdication

Far into the wrong direction we have now veered
So coaches and players are almost as gods revered

Any coaches who abuse kids should be ferreted out
Of that fact there cannot be even the slightest doubt

The need to keep a balanced view must be stressed
Very few are the coaches who youngsters will molest

But here is an alarming development that we may see:
Liars who say, “When I was young, coach molested me.”

Are they seeing a chance to sue for money for their woe
Since, if not the coach, the university has plenty of dough?

Mendacity like that it’s now too likely folks will believe
Although the intent of the mature adult is only to deceive

Even if it’s proven that, with untruth, the charge is rife
The innocent coach will carry a blight the rest of his life

It’s concerning that to make a false charge of that type
The time to have it stick and then profit may well be ripe

Perhaps nothing of this sort will actually come to take place
 But it’s a possibility that we must recognize and then face

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