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Message: [QUOTE="LeMoyneCuse, post: 2000396, member: 158"] This is a tricky thing to negotiate. I'm sure many football players at the DIII level end up getting in to places like Amherst and Williams and Johns Hopkins because of their athletic skill and take advantage of the academics, like your daughter did. I knew a guy when I was at Gettysburg College who quit the football team to take an internship at the White House. Obviously, the latter was going to help him more than the former. That said, you can't fault guys for continuing to chase their dreams at the D1 level if their school of choice didn't work out. Unfortunately, because high D1 college football serves as a minor league, players feel the need to continue to play. The argument that these guys should value their education first, while obvious, is much more difficult to navigate. First, guys like Shy and Steve and Trey (since their parents are involved in this conversation) and a few thousand others at the FBS level have athletic ability that I could only dream of. That's why they've had a chance there. If you're that athletically gifted, why not exploit it? After all, athletic ability is a commodity. If I had one of the best young minds for math or physics or programming at the age of 18 and have the credentials to back it up, I'm going to go to MIT and focus on that, not Bridgeport State and study to become a gym teacher. Chase your dreams with the talent you have. Second, and this is the tricky part, there's socio-economic challenges for some of these guys that most here cannot imagine. If you've grown up barely getting by, what's more enticing - getting a degree, getting an entry level job where you can basically support yourself and no one else, or end up on an NFL roster for 3 years and make a quick million? It's not a hard choice, and I would have made the same one if I could have when I was 22. [/QUOTE]

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