For sure it would have to be open to everyone, similar to the UNL PGA Golf Management program. and be general enough that it could be useful in other areas (training, etc) beyond being an athlete. There are a lot of degrees out there that aren't particularly employable, this might be one of them and would probably never get off the ground. But for someone who is only interested in going to school to play football with hopes of going pro, it might be just as good as a "fill in the blank" degree which they may or may not ever use.
Anymore attrition on the horizon?
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I see what you are doing here!!!
A chance for Nebraska to improve it's APR score and ranking within college football by graduating more student athletes. Maybe we can get some more Academic All-Americans in the process.
I will e-mail the Nebraska Athletic Department now. Winking
Naw, there have just been so many stories of athletes in the pros, losing all their money, getting ripped off, etc, that it always feels like there should be some way for them to learn how to take things into their own hands, or at least be aware of the things they are getting into, if that is their career path of choice.
I agree with you. I have read some of the same stories and seen ESPN investigative stories about this topic.
Maybe there should be mandatory seminars with these topics in mind for student athletes that are participating in sports that involve the possibility of reaching the professional level.
Unfortunately the athletes that need that seminar the most would not be among the athletes paying close enough attention because it "won't apply to me, I'm going to make it"
Totally agree.
Every year we hear about athletes that were swindled out of their fortunes by people close to them. There are symposiums every rookie has to attend that talk about money management and inner circles but it continues because no on thinks it will be you. Human nature I suppose.
Every year we hear about athletes that were swindled out of their fortunes by people close to them. There are symposiums every rookie has to attend that talk about money management and inner circles but it continues because no on thinks it will be you. Human nature I suppose.
One might say that about their financial choices to begin with.
I suppose at the end of the day the conclusion I've come to is that this is a lot of hoops to jump through to solve a fairly small problem for the handful of teams looking for national titles.
First of all the participation ribbon comment was not a personal slam. It was a joke. Second of all, I think it is wrong to assume that IF a kid plateaus or doesn't reach his potential that it's the coach's fault. You seem like an extremely conscientious guy and maybe take your responsibility for their failure a little too personally. Recruiting kids based on high school performance for athletics or academics is still a crap shoot. You can guess but you can't accurately predict how hard a kid will work once he gets to school. I still believe that the majority of responsibility of a kid's success or failure lies with the kid not with the coach or the professor. IF a kid feels his coach or professor isn't doing him justice then it's in his best interest to go somewhere else. Cutting a kid after having 3 years of his college paid for is not a horrible thing.
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Why an athletic scholarship even exists still mystifies me. College is supposed to be an academic endeavor, not an athletic one.
If you're going to split those hairs, split them the other way, it is an academic scholarship, their schooling is what is getting paid for.