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Message: [QUOTE="Beemer, post: 3632420, member: 5218"] Let them sit out or turn professional. Some upperclassmen might have a shot but the freshmen & sophomores not so much. Most would fail though as there are only so many NFL jobs open and the competition for them is incredibly fierce. Then what do they do? They can't return to school (few could afford to pay the tuition on their own) so they don't have a degree or even a skill (other than for their particular sport) to fall back upon. So for a lot of them it would be go home to an uncertain future. Somehow I don't think the manifesto's authors have thought this through even a little bit being too busy focusing on their demands. This manifesto is yet another example of how coddled, privileged, entitled and ignorant American elite level athletes have become. As far as I am concerned they can just go pound sand. And no this post should in no way be construed as support for the NCAA. I am no fan of the big conferences either. Both are too powerful and corrupt to fix so they need to be abolished & replaced. [/QUOTE]