One of the Saddest Stories I've read

So, I was perusing the yahoo sports articles while at work the other day, during my prep period, and I came across an interesting story. You can take a look here. Apparently, down in Texas, there was a 22 year old man who was caught posing as a 16 year old high school student, and was playing for the basketball team. Now, you hear about this, and you read the article, and you look at the pictures, and the same thought really should come into everybody's head. How in the world can this happen?

Well, if you look at the guy's picture, which is provided from the same link above, you could say he looks young. But does he look 16? I guess that's hard to say. According to the articles I've read about this, they said that he presented adequate paper work, but I'm curious how hard they really looked. Or what all they actually looked at. One can forge a driver's license, or some form of state ID pretty easily, but how can one adequately forge a birth certificate (please don't anybody actually answer that). I think what they may have looked at the most is that the guy is 6'5", and was way bigger than everybody else there.

The next thing that comes to mind, or my mind anyways, is exactly how sad this is. I mean, I don't mean to rip on a guy that's going to go to jail for fraud and such, but come on! Is your real life really THAT bad, that you need to pretend to be a 16 year old so that you can relive your glory days in high school? I mean, things must really be going bad for you, as a person, to not just want to go back to high school, but to ACTUALLY go back to high school. I mean, I look back on my days in high school fondly, for the most part, but you couldn't pay me to go back and pretend to be a kid again. I mean, if he wasn't a dirty cheater who couldn't find anything better to do with himself than to try and reach for his glory days as a teenager, I'd almost feel bad for the guy.

The biggest kicker of all this is that, according to the first article I read on this, this is only the latest in a recent trend of 20 somethings pretending to be high schoolers so they can play on the sports teams. Seriously, this is just pathetic! I understand that it is hard for some people to grow up, but this is absolutely ridiculous. I guess some people literally do never fully escape high school.