It can work for some but the people on this blog seem to emphasize LAX skill over book smarts. If you get into a reach school but you are not equipped for the rigorous academic environment, your lax skills will not matter. Now if you played football that is a different story. Most good football schools are not academically challenging or if they are the football players are criminal justice majors or sociology majors. My roommate was a football player at a D1 school that was academically challenging. Criminal justice major, drafted by the Maimi dolphins, did not finish his degree, jump over a pile in preseason, knee buckled and he was cut. I think he is a bouncer now or a truck driver at age 46.