re: Athlete Majors

I had classes with some football players in the early 70s. They ended up in medical school and dental school, graduated and have been successful. They weren’t the majority of the team, but they were plenty smart.

Knowing Ben personally, he is a smart guy, and a truly fine person.

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Yea I don’t remember seeing to many athletes in my engineering classes. Not the same thing at all.

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it's a brutal major. Very few athletes there.

I do know of one - I worked with him in Texas in the late-80s. We were both EEs. Great guy. He started on the OL for LSU in the mid/late 80s.

Great respect for a guy that can excel on the field, and as an engineering major.

There are very few athletes that study anything rigorous, and that's a shame. Precious few will make a living as a pro athlete, and they don't take advantage of the free education they get.

Hell, you don't have to be pre-med, physics, or engineering. Just study something real where you can get a job upon graduation. As an LSU athlete, businesses would be lining up to hire you - if you studied anything real.

But the vast majority of our guys just piss that opportunity away.