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[QUOTE="billsin01, post: 1086276, member: 837"]
In a bunch of ways:

1) You're raiding a 'student assistance program', which is set up to [URL='http://www.ncaa.com/news/ncaa/article/2012-08-20/meeting-needs-student-athletes']help students in need[/URL]. So, what is the need here? An insurance policy so you can feel better about going back to school instead of signing a 7-figure NFL contract? That's a choice, not a need.

2) You're not only using those funds but you're using $60K of those funds for what is likely an insurance policy that will never pay out?

3) In no way, shape or form -- when you fly all your coaches out and set an athlete up with an insurance policy -- are you helping him make the right decision. You're coercing him to go back to school b/c you know he can help you win games.

4) There is almost no chance that this benefits the athlete in the long run. Maybe, just maybe, he increases his draft position, but even that gain is probably negated by the fact that it'll cut his professional career short by a year.

At the end of the day, if a kid can get drafted in the first round of the NFL draft, he should either be gone that day, or going back to college b/c he simply likes it and/or feels it's beneficial in the long run. I don't get that sense at all with this deal.
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