This is true.
I mentored football players at a big 5 D1 school while in grad school. One kid in particular stood out; 5 Star talent; 1 Star academic brain. His first semester schedule was:
-Coaching of Track and Field
-Billiards
-Aquatics
-English
Also, this kid was on a full ride....but couldn’t type, which was evidenced by him planning to turn in a copy of his girls (out of state) research paper as his own (until I found out the day before it was due and spent 1/2 the night “recrafting” it so the scanner wouldn’t pick up blatant plagiarism; he’d also never heard of plagiarism). Dude had no business in college but he could catch and run and was a prize get. I left after the school year; somehow he graduated (I know who did his work); was a late round draft pick, got cut, wound up back at home in the streets and last I’d heard was trying to figure out how to walk again after getting involved in some street shit.
If these kids don’t MANDATE being in decent classes, the school will put them in whatever to keep
them eligible and when they have no more use for them cast them aside. The driven ones get a good degree and make it in the business or entrepreneurial world. The ones fortunate enough to get a degree, and maybe form a relationship with a school booster, end up making something of themselves or at least getting opportunities for work.
The ones that take classes just to stay eligible, and don’t hustle the game one way or another, they are fucked.
Also FWIW, football in particular; their fall schedules are ass; they have to take all the early classes, be done by 2p; practice, dinner/study table; film; rinse; repeat. It’s shitty.
its funny cuz i remember when I ALWAYS went left like you just to be right
