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[QUOTE="RF2044, post: 1025094, member: 40"]
Not sure why you identified Sacramento, but whatever--the idea is to leverage his pseudo-celebrity status as a professional athlete to make money.  It doesn't matter whether said money comes from a shoe company, the local car dealership, or some local restaurant.  Stringing together a couple of those smaller endorsements could still net him six figures--which isn't bad for the amount of "work" involved, considering that most college graduates don't come class to making six figures right out of school.

Yes, I think everyone grasps that it would be more ideal to earn a multi-million dollar endorsement deal with Nike, Under Armour, etc. but that will eventually be determined by how well Grant performs.  If he plays well as a professional, then the sky is the limit.  Otherwise, he'll experience what most fairly nondescript pro athletes do--small scale, local endorsements like the ones described above.  And there's nothing wrong with that.

Just stop.  Donte's mother died unexpectedly while he was in junior high school.  He felt responsible for providing for his younger sibling, and had a new baby that had just been born by the end of his freshman year.  Ergo, he felt pressure to start earning money.

"What's one more year?"  Real easy for someone to say with no skin in the game.
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