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Message: [QUOTE="Cheriehoop, post: 2999657, member: 127"] Sadly many players who leave early only want the degree and find the time to pursue it after they realize that all their options and money has run out and they have basic obligations that they can’t meet after basketball. When they come back from overseas they realize that they can’t be an assistant coach, even a grad assistant without a degree - less a head coach at even a high school and are ‘old news’ by then on the US basketball scene. They usually have kids, families etc and must move with or without them to even pursue that degree at their ‘alma mater’ - not an easy transition. Some colleges are great like SU helping former players, others programs have gone through multiple coaches, multiple AD’s, admins etc lacking any basic connection to former players. What a kid of 20 cares, worries about - can differ greatly from what a man of 35 cares and has to worry about. [/QUOTE]