re: DGDT: Countdown to mini-vaca

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Who is screwed? Serious question

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well more like get, not are

One of the biggest things I can think of are students at schools like mine - Div. 2 school, promised a full education, get a full ride scholarship. They show up and get enrolled by their admissions director for a "General studies" degree their freshmen year, they are always at some practice or off doing stupid stuff, and never realize their degree is a joke.

At UNA there were even classes "that athletes" took... this classes didn't teach them jack squat - but it sure did help them get the credits to graduate with "general studies" by the time their eligibility was up.

These athletes were never going anywhere, they have like a 0.000000001% chance at going pro, but even with these odds, none of them are doing anything meaningful right now... any of them that I was friends with in college are waiting tables, selling cars, working at walmart... none of them have done anything for themselves, because none of them were taught the skills I was in college, they were just taught how to be a college athlete and "get by."

and then.. there's the whole "welp, you are injuried" thing

Good Luck Paying for that

Or lose your scholarship, not finish your degree, and still be left with the financial burdon of the prolonged injury...

there is even more than this, but this is just a few things of a very long list