Quote Originally Posted by Coach34 View Post
I've got a son that turns 13 at the end of July.

He was the only 7th grader to start for the 8th grade team last Fall. He played LT and has great feet. He is also the typical Coach's son that you tell him something once and he has got it. He has been working out 3 times per week this summer with my HS guys in the weightroom, pulling weighted sleds, doing flexibility and change of direction drills. He's 6'1/170 and they plan to play him at LB on D so he can defend sideline to sideline for them defensively. His Dr says according to his growth chart he will likely be 6'3/6'4. He's going to be a DE/LT in HS. I've been approached by coaches at the two 5A's he will attend for the 9th grade. He is a no doubt starter as a 10th grader

Keep NIL as is and lets keep throwing money around. Our family will surely appreciate it. Get paid
Is this what our world has come to, or maybe been like this for a while (James Brooks, Dexter Manley, Jamaal Charles, Kevin Ross, Jasmine Cathey, and countless others) give me the money and damn the education? How pitiful! They will be taken advantage of, financially, somewhere down the line either by some agent or their own family (Mark Sanchez, Jake Peavy and countless others) or they will squander their money away from a lack of knowledge.

I am sure it is worse now:

"As a graduate student at UNC-Greensboro, learning specialist Mary Willingham, researched the reading levels of 183 UNC-Chapel Hill athletes who played football or basketball from 2004 to 2012. She found that 60% read between fourth- and eighth-grade levels. Between 8% and 10% read below a third-grade level.?"

University of Oklahoma professor Gerald Gurney, who looked into the situation at the University of Oklahoma, put it bluntly: “College presidents have put in jeopardy the academic credibility of their universities just so we can have this entertainment industry. … The NCAA continually wants to ignore this fact, but they are admitting students who cannot read.

For many football stars, money goes just as quickly as it comes. According to Sports Illustrated, nearly 4 out of 5 former NFL players either go bankrupt or suffer severe financial distress within two years of retirement.


Is this really the position you want kids to be in?