What is KingdomPros position on student athletes leaving school early?
We know that early success in a college career often prompts many athletes to consider leaving school early to play professionally. For an 18- to 21-year-old playing college athletics with limited or no income, the status associated with quickly moving on to professional sports and the appeal of enormous money is hard to pass up. Yet statistics in this area provide a sobering wake up call to athletes contemplating this jump. For example, in 1990 the NFL began to allow underclass players who had met certain requirements to declare themselves eligible for the league’s entry draft. Over the next 11 years more than 360 underclass players were granted draft eligibility. Of that group, two-thirds were drafted and just over ten percent signed contracts as un-drafted free agents. However, almost one out of every four underclass players were never offered a NFL contract. These numbers reveal in no uncertain terms that bogus advice from unscrupulous advisors has consistently cost student athlete
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