When Dabo retires

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Re: When Dabo retires

Oct 12, 2023, 6:05 PM

This, what you're saying is probably closer to the truth that we can imagine, but something like the NIL that pays college athletes will never go away as long as colleges are used to give future pro athletes a head start, and that is the reason that the demand for paying college students has gotten totally away from the context that college sports was meant to be when free ride college scholarships was more than fare for athletic type kids that wouldn't been able to afford college if not for college sports.

It has gone from a way for the poorest kids to get a college education that would have never seen inside a college classroom without an athletic scholarship, to pro sport dreams and NIL deals.

But now with pro sports paying what it does to their athletes, student athletes no longer takes advantage of the of their free ride scholarships by getting the best grades that they could possible get, to barely doing enough with their free college education that keeps them with a passing grade with most of them following a dream to play pro sports that only 2-3% of them will ever get.

What I'm getting at is this, if a kid comes to college on an athletic scholarship, if he or she don't get an offer for an NIL deal, that should be their roll call to take every advantage possible to get everything they can get from their opportunity of a free college education bc, if they aren't good enough to land a NIL deal, that's telling most of them that their 2-3% chance of going pro has dropped too 1% to 1 1/2% chance of ever making it as a pro athlete with a multimillion dollar pro contract and succeeding. That is what should be continuously talked about to the student athletes, no NIL deal means your chances to ever play a pro sport has lessened. Just maybe they would work harder to take advantage of a lifetime opportunity of getting a totally free college education that even pays them an allowance. Just saying bc there has to be a way that will convince these kids that it's better to get their education while the offer is there over chasing a dream that's nearly impossible to make it come true....