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Jonathon, I'm assuming that you are young and still depending on your parents for support if you believe that plumbers don't make good money. Have a pipe burst in the middle of the winter and get back to me. The rich parent comment that several people have made doesn't fly either. Not all of these guys are dirt poor, ghetto starving, barely surviving kids. Quite a few are from solid middle class backgrounds. Just imagine that you are a late teen/early 20 something who is pretty good at doing something you love and you have the option of getting paid way more than you are getting now to do it. What would you do? A lot of us are bigger fans of LSU than the players themselves. We are die hard, P&G bleeding, life long devotees. For a lot of the players, LSU is merely a means to an end. That's not a knock on them, just an unpleasant fact.

Pigs must be flying...I actually agree with you on all of this?

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Posted by cheeser

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Member since Feb 2007

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Posted on 4/21/15 at 3:30 pm to RedTigerRulz

What percent of basketball and football players would be enrolled at LSU or wherever if there were no sports ? If there are "many" middle class kids on scholarships, that number wouldn't be high , right ? I would take one of those IMHO's ,& guess it would be about 80 or 90 %. And that's just a conservative guess. Of course, that doesn't take in the Eddie Lee Hurts', or Hot Plate Williams who were there for another reason all together. After watching interviews from pros, and seeing the decisions they make , they probably never saw the inside of a classroom during their "college education" , and on our dime at that It's all about money, and the quickest way to get it, ala the M&M situation. They should just go ahead and pay college athletes, and then the pros wouldn't be quite as attractive.

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