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There are no semi pro football teams. Simplifying it all down to that is naive and ignorant, the athletes are using the system that's been put in place for them
by sehr 12y ago
There are no semi pro football teams. Simplifying it all down to that is naive and ignorant, the athletes are using the system that's been put in place for them to succeed.
Ignoring the NCAA route in favor of anything else at this point isn't just career suicide, it's career abortion.
- wavefunction 12y agohttp://www.semiprofootball.org/ http://www.semiprofootball.org/
- sehr 12y agoThat means absolutely nothing. Looking at the lowest level of college football, there are only 11 active roster NFL players from a D3 school. [0] There are 1,696 active NFL players, that's a 0.6 percent chance of 'making it', at the lowest level of the game. Again, absolute and utter career suicide because of some moral grievance. [0] - http://www.d3football.com/interactive/faq/general#14 http://www.d3football.com/interactive/faq/general#14
- dragonwriter 12y ago> There are no semi pro football teams. Yes, there are. True, they aren't a good way to get into the NFL, because the NFL prefer to recruit from college teams. But the question then shouldn't be "why are college athletes expected to meet the academic sstandards that go with being in college" but "why do major professional sports teams in certain sports prefer to recruit from colleges rather than lesser professional leagues in the same sport"?
- sehr 12y agoThat's exactly my point, in the spirit of semi pro baseball & soccer leagues, semi pro football does not exist. And great, that's a completely different argument. One that I think we really should be having soon, though I'm not sure if anything will be changed.