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Originally Posted by RKDinOKC
When in HS was really good with state allocades. Got full ride scholarships. Realized there are a huge numbers between HS and College. And huge numbers between college and pro. Also learned a lot of being picked is not really talent or ability it is being in the right place at the right time. That is why you see the failures.
That's why I chose college to learn to do other things. Saw too many good people becoming teachers.
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Freshmen year of college I studied a lot with a second-year football player who was a business major. His second year in, he had figured out that he wasn't going beyond college with football (and that despite being a standout talent in high school, he was going to be lucky to get played in many NCAA Division I-A games) and decided to switch his major to business so that he would at least graduate with a degree that would help land him a job. He had some conflict with his coach because his major was more demanding than the typical majors they steered college players towards. Even though our school was somewhat of a joke in football, every single player on our team and every team he played was better than anyone he'd encountered in high school. I always thought he was smart to actually use his scholarship to try to set himself up for after college.