“My plan....No more athletic scholarships....ever.”
I agree with this, but the universities will push back very hard because of the revenue college sports generates.
In Europe it isn’t like here. There are club teams for soccer, and youth academies. If you get into one of the elite academies they are responsible for your childhood education, but they are private football/soccer clubs. You work your way up through the system, and either make it onto the first team, get traded or loaned to another team, or move on to another chapter of your life. They are totally unconnected to any formal educational institutions.
To be honest, I think the current system is in some ways bad for minorities. Very, very few ever make it to the professional level, and if they do they don’t last long. This is from an ESPN article in 2016:
“The average NFL career lasts 3.3 years, according to the NFL Players’ Association; 78 percent of players go broke within three years of retirement and 15.7 percent file for bankruptcy within 12 years of leaving the league, according to a paper published by the National Bureau of Economic Research.”
Yet sports careers are seen as a road to success in minority communities. There ought to be much, much more emphasis on getting a good education, acquiring skills, learning how to manage personal finances, and things like entrepreneurship.
problem is the studies are “butt hurt minority” as opposed to physics or engineering