by: Mike
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How can we ruin a young just graduating college senior or for that matter a college player? Lets see we can ruin him by putting him in the spot light, breaking down every thing he has done on and off the field, interview him over and over again, put him in front of camera's and make him speak, or simply make him wear a suit and broadcast a day in life of a new super star. Nah those will not ruin a player or his future those will just make him feel really uncomfortable. We can ruin a player by paying him Millions and Millions of dollars to play in a game that he has never been apart of. I understand the system and how it works but why is this system in place?
Most college graduate are around 22-25 years old while a professional football player is to the lower end of the totem pole do they need $3,162,340.00 in there first season? I think that much money is ridiculous amount of money to be paying Jamarcus Russell in his first season after he held out for X amount of months before he settled on that amount of money don’t you? Jamarcus Russell is getting paid more than Drew Brees, Jeff Garcia, and Tony Romo (before Contract increase) and many other QB's that I have found contracts for. What is the point of this? Hello you have done nothing; we do not even know if you can play in the NFL, you could be another Akili Smith.
The above example is one of many that I have seen in just this past season. Why should we continue to do this to these kids? Giving a kid this much money at that young of an age is and will change there ego for the rest of there lives. I did not do any research on this but most of these kids do not put school first when in college its more of I have to type of thing. After most of these kids leave the NFL they do not have anything saved or have no where else to go or do if they can not get some kind of job with the NFL. Why keep doing this? Oh yeah that’s right to make money.
We use the youth as a breeding ground for our owners to make money. Looking at it like that it is almost (I am not saying it is) like what Mike Vick did with his dogs. Raise them groom them and make money off of them then release them. Just so you can make money. Greed is what this country is about and I really feel that we are hurting these kids in the long run. Why not have contracts set up with incentives?
Incentives would drive the youth of the NFL. Give them X amount of money to have a degree in there field other than football, Give them X amount of money for starting X amount of games, or how about if you do what you are supposed to do we will give you more money. Do not give them 3.1 million because that’s what they want. To me it’s pretty depressing.
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