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Originally Posted by pwd72s
Wow...only 1.6%. Better have a backup plan...
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Even at that, the average career is 3.3 years. So even the vast majority of those who get drafted better have a "plan B".
In the early 1980's I worked out with a guy who had played for the Seahawks as a safety. Lost his job to Kenny Easley, a future and relatively long lived Seahawks star. My workout partner spent maybe two years in the league. In the four or five years I knew him, he never even got a tryout offer from another team. He didn't work, still living off of his couple year's worth of earnings in the NFL. Had absolutely no idea where to turn next. No thoughts about using his "degree", as far as he told me, never even pursuing a career in whatever it might have been. He was at least smart enough to realize, or maybe was made to realize, that employers saw young football players with "degrees" for what they were worth. Zilch. I think he wound up back in his college town using his name to sell cars.
Pretty sad. These kids are no more than livestock, race horses, to those making the real money off of them. As such, these kids who got suspended will be quickly replaced and forgotten. "Back in the day" (however long ago that was), at least they had coaches that demanded and instilled some level of discipline, so there were some "life skills" taken away from their experiences. That's been missing for a long, long time, though.