(07-07-2020 08:20 AM)emu steve Wrote:  

(07-06-2020 05:26 PM)Jerry Weaver Wrote:  

(07-06-2020 05:13 PM)cidbearit Wrote:  

(07-06-2020 08:32 AM)TheWoodenNickle Wrote:  

(07-06-2020 07:27 AM)emu79 Wrote:  Evan Egan is leaving the program.

Hopefully he took a scholarship somewhere.

It's my understanding he wants to focus on his studies and has decided not to play college ball.

I went through a similar situation with my oldest son. He had the opportunity to play college ball and halfway through his senior year in high school made the decision to focus on schooling rather than play ball. He's entering his third year of law school now.

I have to respect a young man who can make a decision like that, especially when other's expectations for him (especially parents') might be completely different.

Hell yes!

Indeed.

I would add there are two primary questions:
1). Is the athletic scholarship a means to an end? e.g., Getting a college education where it might have been difficult or impossible without the financial assistance?

2). Playing college FB with two parts: 1). Is playing football a 'labor of love' which the player really wants to do? 2). Does he have the ability level to see significant PT on the field?

For many scholarship athletes the answer to both questions (#1 and 2) is yes.

How many families really have say 150 - 200K sitting around for their son to have to go off to college without financial assistance?

And secondly, to most (almost all) players with significant skills playing FB is their 'hobby', their 'life', etc.

They don't play CFB to get a scholarship, they play CFB because they love the game.

Perfect Sir!

I LOVE the fact that high school athletes get the chance to take an activity like football or another sport to another level of competition while earning their bachelor degree. In most cases they have been dedicated and worked very hard in their sport, college allows them the chance to do so. Maxx Crosby, for example, was a lightly recruited athlete who now has an extremely bright future in the NFL. Arthur Jackson, by contrast came here from California, had a good college career and worked on a graduate degree. In my opinion, it it all good.