Got that right. This is an apt description of many College Athletes who are essentially recruited to satisfy the ever growing demands of Collegiate Athletics over Collegiate Scholarship. Most never graduate and are just an injury or a misstep away from the streets, having only one thing they can do well and no education to show for their college experience.
It is a real shame the way universities use these young men. For the most part they are not real students, just semi-pros puting in their time in what has become a minor league for the NFL.
A small percentage end up making some money in the big league for three or four years, the rest end up without a degree and nowhere to go.
Ever see the liberal MSM look into this? Not very often or with any depth.
For a great and long overview of the USC Rose Bowl team of 1990 check out this LATimes article
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-rbintro1jan01,0,3450417.story?coll=la-home-local
The sports complex has more land than the classroom campus. Might just explain part of the reason why it costs so much attend such schools.
That in a nutshell is why I despise college athletics. They don't teach students a blessed thing about making it in the real world. All they do is feed the little darlings' delusions of turning pro, when what, maybe half of 1% of college athletes actually do so.
Actually according to the latest information on graduation rates, student athletes graduate at a higher rate than the average student body. The graduation rate of football players in particular is almost even with that of the student body. Whats more, black football players graduate at a much higher rate than the average black student body.