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[QUOTE="All4SU, post: 4256061, member: 381"]
The percentage of these kids who will ever make it to the NFL is minuscule. The percentage of those who do make it and last more than a few years is ridiculously small.

The percentage of kids who play college football who come from lower- or lower-middle class is significant. For them, an education and a career is life-changing.

Yet at every step of the way, from the time these athletes are young, we emphasize their physical talents, we reward those, we encourage those. We plant the seed that someday they will be the next NFL all star. We devalue the education. We de-emphasize the positive impact of breaking the cycle in their family’s lives. We set them up for failure.

When they do eventually fail, they are right back where they started. (To the point of the poster above, while I agree with him in theory for many kids, for these kids they are not going to take the initiative to look up their career guiding principles online. We have already squashed that perspective.)

You want to do right for kids, teach them young that they will probably never make it to the nfl. Teach them how to use their gifts to make a huge leap forward in their lives through an education.

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