In Reply to: Then ''school'' is nothing more... posted by SagoBob on December 23, 2024 at 17:03:10
The Wooden years were a long time ago. I don’t think anything is the same as the 60s and 70s. The footballers and the hoopers (and maybe other athletes) go to UCLA or USC or Florida State or Illinois or Georgia or Duke to major in their sport. Almost by definition if one of those schools is recruiting you, you have the potential to play professionally. Their goal (and reason for going to college) is to be a professional in their sport. It’s really not all that different than when many of us went to school to be a lawyer or doctor or accountant or geologist or a teacher or therapist.
If you make it, it’s quite lucrative.