A little torn

I just had a student removed from my class for excessive sleeping. I talked to him several times about the problem and even wrote him up but to no avail. This same student was in my class last semester and really didn't do much. He passed by the skin of his teeth. The funny thing is, he is a senior, a starter and star football player on our football team and to boot he just signed with a junior college on a scholarship. Apart from the sleeping problem he is a decent kid. Sometimes I feel that if I have to take drastic measures of this sort then somewhere I messed up. It seems like there is something you can do to pull all of the kids around!