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Yet football players tend to make more money and find jobs around the sport more often than theater students do in and around the theater.
by MisterBastahrd 7y ago
Yet football players tend to make more money and find jobs around the sport more often than theater students do in and around the theater.
- whyenot 7y agoIs there a study or something that backs up your assertion?
- seanmcdirmid 7y agoIs that true? Do you mean all football players including walk ons?
- yifanl 7y agoA quick search states about 2% of college football players manage to go pro. I'm not familiar, but I imagine it's a bit of a cliff for the other 98%? There don't seem to be too many transferable skills from college football if you don't make a living from football.
- dragonwriter 7y ago> I'm not familiar, but I imagine it's a bit of a cliff for the other 98%? There don't seem to be too many transferable skills from college football if you don't make a living from football. I think football players tend very often to take academic programs relating to communication/journalism, education, or PE/exercise science/etc., and there are certainly some transferable skills from college football itself, along with such programs, to sports journalism, coaching/athletic training, and teaching in secondary school PE programs.
- GhettoMaestro 7y agoWhen you factor in the extremely small percentage of aspiring football players that will actually make it big, coupled with the now extremely clear effects of CTE... I openly ponder: What dollar figure would you require to willingly participate in a repetitive action that is known to cause long term brain damage (and essentially, brain death given CTE)? Yeah, you might have a better quality of life (money wise) temporarily, but I would argue the horribleness one with CTE experiences at the end of their life outweighs that temporary benefit.