While there are insurance policies the NCAA makes available for top players to insure against a career-threatening injury, the real motive of the NCAA is to “encourage” those players to stay in college football so the organization and athletic departments can collect the marginal revenue product those players generate (since players are limited to a maximum “wage”, a.k.a. scholarship).
Better than it used to be. At one time, you got hurt and you were likely not to get drafted at all. thanks to good surgery, many, like Bradford, come back from the injury, they just have to prove it at the Combines.
And those football games pay for a lot of other sports and scholarships to be played at the school. Alums contribute when the program wins. Students buy tickets for the games when the program wins. Yada-yada.
it might still be true of the guy who got there and never learned to read.
Then again, you can stay in school and turn into Jake Locker who may not even go in the first three rounds this year.
ronebofh over 13 years ago
The union just decertified, so don’t feel too bad, kid.
jtviper7 over 13 years ago
Sam Bradford’s the next Kurt Warner…
Clevite Kid Premium Member over 13 years ago
Andrew Luck at Stanford will be the next poster child for this charity … . . and I thought Stanford students were smart ? ? ?
Lolapoo Premium Member over 13 years ago
While there are insurance policies the NCAA makes available for top players to insure against a career-threatening injury, the real motive of the NCAA is to “encourage” those players to stay in college football so the organization and athletic departments can collect the marginal revenue product those players generate (since players are limited to a maximum “wage”, a.k.a. scholarship).
freeholder1 over 13 years ago
Better than it used to be. At one time, you got hurt and you were likely not to get drafted at all. thanks to good surgery, many, like Bradford, come back from the injury, they just have to prove it at the Combines.
And those football games pay for a lot of other sports and scholarships to be played at the school. Alums contribute when the program wins. Students buy tickets for the games when the program wins. Yada-yada.
it might still be true of the guy who got there and never learned to read.
Then again, you can stay in school and turn into Jake Locker who may not even go in the first three rounds this year.