Promising football player turns down free education at Michigan State for rap career

excuse goodlove..he's slow

lets use Duke as an example, because they are D1 school that offers 4 year scholarships for football within the ACC

their tuition in and out of state is 39k+/yr

a guy who snags an athletic scholarship and just plays one year, would already be saving 2-3 years worth of tuition at other universities

that's your bottom..

now imagine a guy who goes 4 years at duke playing football (believe it or not, it does happen)

he's saving damn near 120K that him or his parents would have to pay out, plus he's getting a 'Duke' education

apply the same to stanford, michigan state, etc

not to mention all the perks that comes with playing big-time football

that scholarship money covers tuition, room and board and any other shit the football program/school wants

by college student standards...he's living large

the average student is taking out loans and setting themselves up for debt and does not have the campus recognition you get from being a scholarship athlete

 

if they were living soooooooo large on those scholarships then why are the college athlete getting the school on probation for taking money and other gifts (The NCAA says Bush received lavish gifts from two fledgling sports marketers hoping to sign him. The men paid for everything from hotel stays and a rent-free home where Bush's family apparently lived to a limousine and a new suit when he accepted his Heisman in New York in December 2005.)

yeah, he was living large but not on athletic scholarships.

how about smu and miami for getting the death penalty for their actions....
http://www.forbes.com/sites/prishe/...-must-receive-college-football-death-penalty/

yeah they were doing well JUST on scholarships. hell, college athletes are nothing more than slaves

"forty million dollar slaves" summary :

From Jackie Robinson to Muhammad Ali and Arthur Ashe, African American athletes have been at the center of modern culture, their on-the-field heroics admired and stratospheric earnings envied. But for all their money, fame, and achievement, says New York Times columnist William C. Rhoden, black athletes still find themselves on the periphery of true power in the multibillion-dollar industry their talent built.

Provocative and controversial, Rhoden’s $40 Million Slaves weaves a compelling narrative of black athletes in the United States, from the plantation to their beginnings in nineteenth-century boxing rings and at the first Kentucky Derby to the history-making accomplishments of notable figures such as Jesse Owens, Althea Gibson, and Willie Mays. Rhoden makes the cogent argument that black athletes’ “evolution” has merely been a journey from literal plantations—where sports were introduced as diversions to quell revolutionary stirrings—to today’s figurative ones, in the form of collegiate and professional sports programs. Weaving in his own experiences growing up on Chicago’s South Side, playing college football for an all-black university, and his decades as a sportswriter, Rhoden contends that black athletes’ exercise of true power is as limited today as when masters forced their slaves to race and fight. The primary difference is, today’s shackles are often of their own making.

Every advance made by black athletes, Rhoden explains, has been met with a knee-jerk backlash—one example being Major League Baseball’s integration of the sport, which stripped the black-controlled Negro League of its talent and left it to founder. He details the “conveyor belt” that brings kids from inner cities and small towns to big-time programs, where they’re cut off from their roots and exploited by team owners, sports agents, and the media. He also sets his sights on athletes like Michael Jordan, who he says have abdicated their responsibility to the community with an apathy that borders on treason.

Sweeping and meticulously detailed, $40 Million Slaves is an eye-opening exploration of a metaphor we only thought we knew.

the critique of the book by the new york times...http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/23/books/review/23goldstein.html?_r=0

new york times on why you should pay athletes.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/01/magazine/lets-start-paying-college-athletes.html?pagewanted=all

jason whitlock on why they should pay athletes.

http://msn.foxsports.com/collegebas...tes-can-work-if-you-follow-these-steps-041013

 

yeah getting an education is good over trying to get a rap career...but that scholarship is not a sure thang when it comes to sports. dont fall for the okie doke. IF he is really good then yeah play then go pro....fuck college. you can get a degree anytime. football is a limited time and a rap "career". more than likely he knew he wasnt good enuff to play pro. shit that is what you go to college for to get a fucking job. football is a job. if he knew he wasnt good enuff to go pro....then shit yeah...do you negroe.


http://work.chron.com/much-money-nfl-player-make-year-2377.html


Average Salaries

The average salary of an NFL player works out to considerably less when not considering the top earners, but these players still make hundreds of thousands of dollars each. Bloomberg Businessweek says the average salary of an NFL player in 2011 was $1.9 million. The median salary was $770,000. When factoring in a typical signing bonus, these numbers can go up well into the $2-3 million range. Each team used to have an overall pay cap that they could not exceed, which was set by the collective bargaining agreement. In 2008, it was $116 million. However, in recent years, the cap has been eliminated.


Minimum Salaries

The base pay of $375,000 for a rookie goes up with experience, so that players in their third season made $600,000 minimum, and those in their tenth season made more than $900,000. According to the collective bargaining agreement, there are incremental increases each year until 2014, so that for the 2012 season a rookie makes $390,000, for 2013 a new player makes $405,000 and for 2014, $420,000.

 

He clearly demonstrated a knack for obtaining the nation's highest award. Congratulations on turning down a lifetime opportunity for an unreachable career and controversy!

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The average length of a career in your league six years... but only if you don't count anyone who is below average.

http://www.businessinsider.com/nfls-spin-average-career-length-2011-4

I can get why buddy decided not to play football. do I agree....thats a different story. to say he is an idiot. you may need to rethink that shit. he just better be good. that is all

 

yeah going pro is a sure thing when its its about: 1.7% of college players play professionally, 0.08% of high school players do

http://www.businessinsider.com/odds-college-athletes-become-professionals-2012-2?op=1

 

like i stated...dude better be good (I doubt that he is) ....even in football he can have a bad gamne or season and that scholarship is gone.

like will smith....he had a scholarship for MIT and turned it down. his dad was pissed and told him you got 5 years to make it work.

not saying this cat is a will smith by any means but...........who da fuck is

 

MS,that winner deserves two of them. That guy does not know the odds of being a good rapper in that industry.

 

hell you can be good but it doiesnt mean you will make it

 

Jay the dumbest high schooler around

How about going to Michigan State and majoring in you know MUSIC!!?

How about your parents kickiing you out of the house?

 

EPIC first post

u should post more often