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Message: [QUOTE="manleyzoo, post: 3042264, member: 519"] Tyus is set up to get his degree in just a few more credits, so it must mean something to him. If you're wishing him good luck, you're also congratulating him on getting his degree. A degree may not mean much to top college bball players but that doesn't mean it shouldn't. This from a study by the Association of Public Land Grant Universities: [I]"The evidence that a college degree significantly improves one’s employment prospects and earnings potential is overwhelming. Bachelor’s degree holders are half as likely to be unemployed as their peers who only have a high school degree and they make $1 million in additional earnings on average over their lifetime."[/I] So you take a shot at making it in the NBA (a long shot for most) or in Europe (most guys don't adjust to the itinerant lifestyle) and if you don't make it, unless you're the exception you don't go back to school. So what you're left with is a high school degree. [/QUOTE]