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There are well paying jobs you can get into with basic majors if you are an effective communicator and are a people person. Not everyone is cut out for sales, but just about every industry has sales divisions, most require a degree to get on the ground floor, and many don’t necessarily specify a...

100k per year for one or 2 years IS poverty if you have no degree, no skills, and no backup plan. Just look at the landscape of ex-NFL short-timers, most of whom made way more than that. If I’ve said it once, I’ve said it 100 times, short money is dumb money. If you’re not playing the long...

You're right. I think a lot of it is bad advice from agents and hanger-ons, leeches, some family, etc. People should always make decisions that are in their best interests, but if we retrospectively looked at all our early entrants over the last 15 years, I can only think of Olivier Vernon and...

Ideally, the extra year would give a player the opportunity to raise his draft stock, while getting him closer to a degree which will last way after any short-term league money. The operative word being “ideally” If one knows for certain their draft stock will not be helped, or damaged, by...

Seriously? Making “up to” $150,000 for a season or two and then out of the league is fine? That is a real low bar there.

There’s truth in what you say, but when you look at programs like Clemson, they are sometimes getting first rounders or top 3 round guys, to stay for their senior years. That’s how they’re winning championships. We are nowhere near that, so that’s really not an issue now. And you’re right, we...

With scumbags like Petey and others in their ears, even telling them to ignore their draft ratings, or telling them they can still get good 7th round money, and/or scaring them with injury stories, and with family members pressuring them - we can see why it happens. Too many people running...