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[QUOTE="DoctorBombay, post: 22558, member: 626"]
Oh, for the love of....

We go to college...to develop skills...to get a degree...to enhance our employment opportunities...to get a job...that makes us money. Period.
If an athlete can speed up that process & make it to the end goal, ie; TO MAKE MONEY, then why shouldn't he?
He can always come back & finish the idealistic vision of being an "educated man", by obtaining his degree later.

I had a friend who dropped out his sophomore year at SU & worked in a Wall Street mail room. We ragged him about leaving early, but by the time we got out, he was a few years ahead, & was making more money while having much more real experience. It took YEARS to catch up to him income wise, & 10 years later, he got his BA from NYU. I know numerous cases of people finishing on time & doing nothing, & others dropping out early but being very successful.

Frankly, I think "getting a degree" if you are able to maximize your worth as an athlete is highly overrated.  Just another "myth" perpetuated by the NCAA, to maintain the status quo. JMHO
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