ThomasM
Retired from college football
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What does JR know about anything? It's not the universities job to hold your hand, at some point you have to take responsibility for yourself. It's a path to the NFL? Yeah, if you want to make millions of dollars for playing a sport you're gonna have to put in some work just like all the other guys. It's not a hand out. There are tons of kids who'd love to get free school. ****ing millennials crying about having to put in work to get a free education and maybe earn millions of dollars.
In my opinion most of them aren't getting an education at all, but are being used to make millions of dollars for their "school". Yeah, they should take advantage of that free education, but when the universities are letting them get in and pass through without learning a **** thing, in order to put a better product on the field, which path will most kids take? They are told by everyone that they will make millions one day if they work hard on the field. These schools should be ashamed of themselves. Education should be priority number 1, NOT letting kids skate by because they are making your school money. Even when most of them make millions, they are broke soon after leaving the NFL. The entire college football system is set up to take advantage of these young men, nothing more. It's **** sure not to educate them.
you pretend to care about these kids, then you remove all agency from them as if they are incapable of making their own choices.
and lol at you guys acting as if most college kids obtain an education simply because they have a degree. i have news for you: the phenomenon of obtaining a degree without much of an education to show for it is not unique to only the college athlete.
What the living **** are you talking about? I never said kids are educated because they got a degree. I said that student athletes that make millions of dollars for their school are passed through, education be damned.
And yeah, they have some personal responsibility when it comes to their education. However, many of these kids were never taught the importance of education, but rather the importance of sport. Education to many of them was getting just enough grades to get to the next level. Then many of them have grown up leaches/handlers trying to skim a little for themselves. Man, it's a problem, but keep your head in the sand.
Very few universities care about these young men. I believe that's a big reason Richt has success in recruiting. He can sit down with the parents/parent and let them know their child will be taken care of. I don't mean passed through so they can get to the NFL kind of taken care of.