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Topic: You're a 5* recruit. Where do you sign?

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OrangeAfroMan

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Re: You're a 5* recruit. Where do you sign?
« Reply #28 on: October 09, 2018, 10:15:48 AM »
Quote from: bayareabadger on October 09, 2018, 08:35:23 AM
Why not Vandy?
Because then you're the lone ranger going against those 23 guys at Bama or the 18 guys at UGA, getting your head knocked in.
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Re: You're a 5* recruit. Where do you sign?
« Reply #29 on: October 09, 2018, 10:17:14 AM »
Quote from: Cincydawg on October 09, 2018, 08:45:17 AM
Only if they could get accepted at Stanford, and are interested in a degree.
I think this is the pertinent question - what % of these 5* types could even get into Stanford?  My guess is fewer than 5%.  Might make the whole point moot.
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Re: You're a 5* recruit. Where do you sign?
« Reply #30 on: October 09, 2018, 10:22:46 AM »
When I was 18 and if I was a 5* recruit, my family would have disowned me if I had went anywhere but Ohio State. Believe me it was every kids dream in my neighborhood to play for the Buckeyes.
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Re: You're a 5* recruit. Where do you sign?
« Reply #31 on: October 09, 2018, 10:30:02 AM »
Quote from: Cincydawg on October 09, 2018, 08:45:17 AM
Only if they could get accepted at Stanford, and are interested in a degree.
Even if they could get into Stanford and want a degree going to Bama, UGA, or LSU isn’t necessarily a mistake.
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Re: You're a 5* recruit. Where do you sign?
« Reply #32 on: October 09, 2018, 10:59:22 AM »
If I am said 5 star, I'm going to Stanford.  That is how the hypothetical was stated.

If I'm giving advice to another, it will depend on the other.

Obviously, if you are THAT good really, you would spend 3 years at say Georgia and go make serious money in the League, so the academics are not relevant.  Even Calvin Johnson left early.
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Re: You're a 5* recruit. Where do you sign?
« Reply #33 on: October 09, 2018, 11:02:37 AM »
One can run the numbers of course, but imagine you sign a 5 year pro contract for say $40 million, and that's it, you get injured whatever.

Now, you are 26-27 years old and have something around $25 million after taxes and fees and whatever.  But you are looking at another 60-70 years of life.  You should be in good shape IF you manage it properly, but of course that is a large IF.

So, you might need to get a job.  For one thing, as Malcolm Forbes once said, the only think a man can do for 8 hours a day is work.  I don't really agree, but he said it.  A job with a degree from Stanford is probably going to be better than a job with no degree from UGA.

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Re: You're a 5* recruit. Where do you sign?
« Reply #34 on: October 09, 2018, 11:09:39 AM »
Someplace with great weather and school densely populated with gorgeous women.   Most likely one of the Southern California schools.
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Re: You're a 5* recruit. Where do you sign?
« Reply #35 on: October 09, 2018, 11:13:22 AM »
Every college campus I've ever visited had gorgeous women.  Every one of them.

Well, Princeton not so much, as it was cold and rainy that day.

And Georgia Yech, not so much either.
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Re: You're a 5* recruit. Where do you sign?
« Reply #36 on: October 09, 2018, 11:17:59 AM »
Yes, that's true.  Gorgeous women everywhere.  But some schools it seems like there's more.  For example, Florida State, but the weather in the panhandle sucks in the Summer. 
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Re: You're a 5* recruit. Where do you sign?
« Reply #37 on: October 09, 2018, 11:18:54 AM »
But if you end up college football hero boy and don't make it in the NFL, you will always have potential income from your college town (if your school is in one and not a big city).  You can do local endorsements, work for the school's broadcast team, or even become the #1 local realtor overnight.

And to have a $25 million head start on others in the work force, where you went to school is largely irrelevant.  
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Re: You're a 5* recruit. Where do you sign?
« Reply #38 on: October 09, 2018, 11:19:53 AM »
The % of gorgeous ladies on every big campus is the same, it's just that the warm-weather school's girls are wearing less.  
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Re: You're a 5* recruit. Where do you sign?
« Reply #39 on: October 09, 2018, 11:23:44 AM »
I agree lots of gorgeous women on college campuses, but why is it that Oxford has an outsized portion of them?   I've been all over the south for games,  they are an outlier amongst outliers.
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Re: You're a 5* recruit. Where do you sign?
« Reply #40 on: October 09, 2018, 11:33:44 AM »
Over spring break in 1975, I drove up to Princeton to check it out.  It was gray, drizzly, residual snow, and whatever females there may have been were wearing heavy coats and hoodies.

On the way back, I stopped at UNC.  It was about 65°F and sunny and the coeds were attractive.

And that is why I ended up at UNC instead of Princeton.

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Re: You're a 5* recruit. Where do you sign?
« Reply #41 on: October 09, 2018, 11:34:37 AM »
And how many gorgeous women do you really need as BMOC?  Ten?  Twenty?  

Now, if I had a million dollars ....

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