As Oklahoma quarterback Sam Bradford deals with a bad shoulder and Florida quarterback Tim Tebow is telling his birdie named Ronnie that Tebow got “knocked the f–k out,” we feel more strongly than ever about our basic position regarding college players who have generated considerable interest from the NFL.
Get out while you can.
As one league source put it on Saturday, “If you want to help the coach’s family, stay. If you want to help your own family, leave.”
College football players are putting their bodies on the line for, in many cases, an education that most of them wouldn’t have wanted in the first place. Everyone who goes to college is hoping to develop marketable skills; when a college football player is confident that he’s ready to graduate to a level of the sport where there’s a market for his skills, then the college player needs to go.
Of course, Tebow was a question mark after three college seasons, and his draft status was unknown. But it will be even more unknown in 2010, especially if the concussion he suffered on Saturday night has lingering effects — or if he suffers any further concussions between now and the time when he ends his four-year run of helping Urban Meyer’s family.
Indeed, the Pete Carroll hissy fit from January can now be placed in the proper context. Carroll knew that he didn’t have a quick and easy replacement for Mark Sanchez at quarterback, so Carroll didn’t want Sanchez to go. And Carroll concealed his selfish motives with supposed concern for Sanchez.
To date, Sanchez has been just fine. And Carroll has had to put his team in the hands of a true freshman whose bad shoulder has exposed how bad the other guys on the depth chart are.
So listen up, kids. When the NFL is banging on your door, remember that the guy who’s telling you, “Ignore it, they’ll be back” stands to gain a lot more than you do if you heed that advice.
Spoken like a true attorney…get out while you can to fund the brotherhood of shyster lawyers and their overpriced services.
Here’s another lesson….they hit even harder in the NFL. Tomorrow, on ESPN’s First Take, I guarantee you that there will be people asking if a flag should have been thrown on the Tebow hit. I mean, c’mon, he hit Timmy really, really hard.
The lesson here is, football and a quick payday is more important than an education.
God Bless America.
This is actually a good article. I agree completely with you Florio. I think Bradford will be ok though.
The lesson here is, you should have put this on CFT to bring some traffic to that site.
“The lesson here is, football and a quick payday is more important than an education.”
LOL, in the case of entertainers who will work in the NFL this is a VERY true statement. ‘An education’ is not necessary for a guy who plays in the NFL at the top level and will get a multi-million $ contract with many of the multi-millions guaranteed before they take a single snap.
The ONLY reason a top player should play 4 years if if he believes he can improve his draft status by playing the additional year — substantially.
Figure out how long it will take Tebow to make even the bonus money from his 1st NFL contract if he decided to use his ‘education’ outside of the NFL — like maybe 50 -100 years? That doesn’t make good economic sense.
It makes far more sense for those guys to come out as early as they can, then, after their limited time in the NFL earnings area is over, finish the education, if they want to.
It’s a no-brainer. The college will always be there to go back to.
The Millions of Dollars offer might not be.
To be honest, how many NFL prospects are actually learning anything at school. I’m sure Tebow could earn a good living with his Theological studies degree (pff!) but minimum wage in the NFL is more than he will ever make as a monk.
Yeah, because the NFL career is such a sure thing, right Florio?
It’s the rare case where a guy’s better off going into the draft and not getting a degree, and I think it does these guys a disservice to assume that most of them don’t want or need a degree. Fact is, most of them will not succeed in the NFL and WILL need their degree. Becoming a pro athlete is a crap shoot. Developing a mind and the skills to earn a living is important for everyone.
Pete Carroll is a first class a-hole. He speaks softly and everyone thinks he is the world’s nicest guy but his just as much or more cutthroat as any other college coach.
bearsrule, don’t you think the knee to the head had something to do with it?
Bradford might’ve been the #1 pick he should’ve gone out but Tebow might not have even been a first day pick – and there’s a possiblity now he’s in the Top 20. It made plenty of sense for him to stay another year.
The other lesson to be learned is, if you can’t take college hitting, what makes you think you are going to hold up against real hitting in the NFL?
Stay in school. What Florio is not telling you is that the top lawyers in the country make a hell-of-a-lot more than the top NFL players, LOL
Face it. The “education” that many football players are given at universities consists of watered down high school courses. Remember the recent accusations about University of Michigan.
The Genius – exactly right. If I coulda gone to school 2-3yrs instead of 4 and had a 7 figure salary lingering there for me, why would I stay in school and risk it. These guys get to keep the 6 credit hrs/semester they earn to be used towards a degree later on.
# Tundrastruck says: September 27, 2009 10:26 AM
Spoken like a true attorney…get out while you can to fund the brotherhood of shyster lawyers and their overpriced services.
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OUCH !!!!
On a side note, I have suffered through several concussions and it hasn’t effected me, effected me, effected me, effected me, effected me, effected me.
“Get out while you can.”
Didn’t you mean: “Get the f–k out while you can.”?
Hey mike who’s in charge of CFT? Whoever is running the show over there is a lazy bitch. You write more college related articles over here than he does over there. Say what you will about the staff of PFT writing bs… But at least they’re writing and giving us something to read. CFT sucks.
Super Puss Tebow isn’t going to have an NFL career anyway so what does it matter. Stay in school, get flashed by hot co-eds and pee your tighty whities a little bit as you blush.
Danny Wurawful failed in the NFL and Danny Wurawful will as well.
Another example: Brian Brohm of Louisville.
Junior year took Louisville to BCS bowl game (2007 Orange Bowl), was MVP and a Heisman trophy candidate.
If he left after that, first round no brainer. In fact, the “vaunted” The Sporting News projected Brohm as high as the top pick in the 2007 NFL draft.
He decided to stay senior year, Louisville went 6-6 and he dropped to 2nd round.
When you can get out……..get out.
Tim has a much higher calling than football. While he loves the sport, he loves God and family even more. That quality has been proved over and over again. Money definitely eases our mission work. However, Tim is capable of generating that requirement in so many ways. By the way, a good college experience is worth a million dollars:) No young man who stays in college for any reason is a loser. No player who remains in a game is a loser, either. Your remarks lack consideration of the intangibles that make life truly rich; as in sense, not cents:)