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Shew man. That is super cynical.

I really don't think so.  

easy to discriminate for being a Sooner or Gator

just can't discriminate on religion, age, gender, or race

I call BS.  In late October, those dainty lil Boilers aren't wearing jeans all around campus?  Meanwhile, down in Gainesville, you can't find a skirt longer than mid-thigh.

OAM, I read his comment as,  not all college campuses have hot women, not a quibble over your claims of wardrobe distinctions.

I think @OrangeAfroMan  understood that and was simply arguing that you couldn't tell if they were hot or not because they were dressed like Eskimos.  

I would sign with Stanford myself, as noted.

Few people with any motivation want to retire at 26 with Big Bank.

I would of course, but I'm me.

I suppose that depends on what you mean by retire:

• If you mean sit around and watch TV all day for the rest of my life, then no.  
• If you mean have enough bank to be able to do whatever I wanted to do then yes.  

I'm starting to tire of life

My guess is that a star football player doesn't have to worry much about finding attractive females just about anywhere aside from a small oil town in North Dakota.

I don't think that is a real consideration.

If he is only interested in playing on Sunday in three years. his choices are pretty obvious, perhaps flavored by his position.

If he is serious about academics and getting a degree, Stanford would be a solid choice.

I think a 5 star pro style QB would prefer programs with pro style offensive schemes.  Other than that, the choices are obvious.  And the list of where they have been going is pretty clear as well.  Pick one of them where you like the coaching staff and they appear to have stability therein.

I think all of this focus on academics is a little misleading.  

Upthread @bwarbiany posted a link which stated that Stanford's median football player "who reported scores" got an 1800 on the SAT and 26 on the ACT.  Those a good scores.  An 1800 on the SAT is 81st percentile and a 26 on the ACT is 83rd percentile.  The thing is that Stanford's average for all students is 2220 on the SAT and a score of 2080 is only the 25th percentile of Stanford students.  Those Stanford football players with 1800 SAT scores are 280 points behind a 25th percentile Stanford Student and 420 points behind an average Stanford student.  

Furthermore, I strongly suspect that the football averages (at all schools, not just Stanford) are inflated by the inclusion of walk-ons.  I've never found absolute confirmation of this, but wherever you see the football player scores you never see "scholarship football players", instead you see it as "all football players".  My suspicion is that the walk-ons that we have never heard of probably have normal scores for the institution in question which means that the scholarship football players are even lower than the "average football player" because that average is propped up by higher-scoring walk-ons.  

This gap is frankly an embarrassment for all of our schools.  

Here is a link that I have posted before that lays out the enormous gap between football scores and scores of other students at major schools.  Michigan (997), Purdue (974), Indiana (973), and Iowa (964) all made the top-10 which is great.  The problem is that those scores aren't great and they are the best in the country.  Everybody else is even worse.  

There is a good reason why a lot of high-end academic schools with decent football/basketball programs hide most of their athletes in what are effectively "athlete only" majors.  They have to because otherwise the athletes couldn't possibly keep up with the general student population.  

Look at Stanford:

• 1800 "football average" is 81st percentile nationally.  
• 2080 is 25th percentile of Stanford students is 96th percentile nationally.  
• 2220 is average for all Stanford students is 98th percentile nationally.  
• 2360 is 75th percentile for all Stanford students is 99.8th percentile nationally.  

Bottom line, Stanford's "average" football player is in the smartest ~ 1 in 5.  Stanford's average student is in the smartest 1 in 50.  That is a HUMONGOUS gap.  Stanford's 1800 scoring football players cannot possibly keep up academically with the "real" Stanford students.