WAR DAMN EAGLE(98.90.133.201) on 9/16/2011 - 12:31 p.m. says: ( 14 views
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"The grant I was working on was a multi-million dollar grant."
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off of your work in the catfish pond? Did they
make a ton off of licensing? TV revenues? Did hundreds of thousands
of people pay top dollar to come watch you in the pond?
The Fisheries Dept is one of the top departments in the University in terms of grant funding. I didn't make tons of money, but I was invited to speak at an international conference in Hi war yah. A few tens of people actually came to hear my presentation. Tshirts were handed out.
If you slipped in the pond, would that have ruined your career prospects?
Possibly. Generally speaking, working around a combination of heavy equipment, water, and electricity can be hazardous to ones health if you don't respect it and pay attention to what you're doing. Students have been seriously injured in the past (and I know of at least one fatality).
Top football athletes are not the same as most other students in terms of earning potential and risk to that earning potential while they slave away in college. That's life.
Tim Cook, a former ordinary college student, seems to be doing pretty well for himself. The average shelf life in the pros for even the best college players isn't very long. I would imagine their long-term earning potential would be greatly increased with a college degree.
They are also not the same because there is really nothing intrinsic about college that a top tier football player needs to go on to a pro career that couldn't be handled by a farm system.
Other than the fact that there is no farm system and never will be; and ignore reality for a second and say there was an NFL developmental league -the best coaches/developers of said talent would stay in the college ranks. The value of the college scholarship is worth more on every level than what 99% of these players would make in any farm system.
