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Message: [QUOTE="sufandu, post: 2567621, member: 874"] Sadly, it's ultimately a bigger issue than whether a kid can get drafted in a certain spot or whether the kid has an opportunity to go back to school. So many of these athletes are told by people close to them starting at 8 or 10 years old that their only way to succeed is through sports. They don't value education, and, maybe worse, don't learn to work hard at something that they don't enjoy. Once athletics end for guys like that, they don't have the first clue where to go from there. We talk about the NCAA doing a disservice to these athletes when the disservice often starts long before they're close to being a part of the NCAA. [/QUOTE]