Careers after college for athletes who attended top colleges

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So, what I am hearing is that athletes are very successful because they into lucrative careers.

No one has talked about college athletes who have helped the poor and hungry or done anything to make the world a better place.

This may be a good time for YOU to regale us all with how YOU are making the world a better place. We know you're not a college athlete so supposedly (in your mind) it is easier for you to make the world a better place.

We'll wait here with bated breath until you tell us what YOU have done to make the world a better place ...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:In case you can’t tell, I don’t hate Harvard as an alum, but I don’t think an already privileged group of students deserve self-perpetuating privileges from alumni. If they are that good, let them compete on the open market.

Newsflash: It’s a rigged market in a systemically racist country.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:In case you can’t tell, I don’t hate Harvard as an alum, but I don’t think an already privileged group of students deserve self-perpetuating privileges from alumni. If they are that good, let them compete on the open market.

Newsflash: It’s a rigged market in a systemically racist country.

Newsflash: And always has been.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:In case you can’t tell, I don’t hate Harvard as an alum, but I don’t think an already privileged group of students deserve self-perpetuating privileges from alumni. If they are that good, let them compete on the open market.

Newsflash: It’s a rigged market in a systemically racist country.

Newsflash: And always has been.

Weird comeback.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:In case you can’t tell, I don’t hate Harvard as an alum, but I don’t think an already privileged group of students deserve self-perpetuating privileges from alumni. If they are that good, let them compete on the open market.

Newsflash: It’s a rigged market in a systemically racist country.

Newsflash: And always has been.

Newsgladh: you’re a tool

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So, what I am hearing is that athletes are very successful because they into lucrative careers.

No one has talked about college athletes who have helped the poor and hungry or done anything to make the world a better place.

Maybe not whom you're thinking about, but I'm a former Stanford coxswain who founded a non-profit and also works on housing and food insecurity in my city. The truth is not very many people in general do this kind of work. And I wouldn't be surprised to hear that the percentage is lower from elite schools, because this kind of work isn't really valued by our society as much as making a lot of money. But I also wouldn't be surprised to learn otherwise. Americans just don't value social good very highly.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:If they're dipshits -- and they usually are vis a vis the average classmate -- they generally go onto work normal 9 to 5 gigs. It's a fake myth that all these millionaire exec alums just can't wait to hire washed up dipshit athletes and give them tons of cash with no accountability. I would bet the average former D1 athlete is selling insurance or cars at a Chevy dealership. And the average former female college athletes is in some make-work HR role or a fat SAHM.

Yeah yeah cherry pick the few that got into Stanford law or is now some Goldman executive or got rich off government set-aside minority contracts.

We are talking ivy here and other academically rigorous schools but keep projecting

You've never been on an Ivy campus or you'd know many of the athletes are dipshits relative to their classmates who earned their way in. The hardest part about an Ivy is getting in. It's next to impossible to get kicked out or fail out before graduating.

This is true of everyone, not just the athletes, because the dean takes care of the students assigned to them and does everything possible to support them. For example, mine helped one of my friends graduate in 6 year because he had his first schizophrenia attack during freshman year. There were several kids with ED who got treatment and then came back after a two year gap.

NP here. It is especially true of athletes, since you brought it up.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I posted this before, but Harvard Varsity Club actively asks alumni athletes to hire the Harvard varsity athletes. So there is definitely a career boost. I don’t do it, even though I could, because it rubs me the wrong way - let everyone compete on merit to get into the recruiting process. But I am sure that many others do provide career help and hiring.

+1

There are entire organizations devoted to giving athletes a boost, and the athletes' moms have zero shame about it.

[Anonymous]

hopefully they get a job that is related to their major. they are "student" athletes, not just athletes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What do they usually major in?
Probably some easy bullshit majors?

Such venom. So much jealousy.

DP here. I think posters, and people in general, resent that the athletes are given scholarships and put on a pedestal. Don't act perplexed.

[Anonymous]

Way too many generalizations here. The athletes I know had to have the stats to get into the Ivy’s even when they were Olympic caliber. I’m guessing the big state schools can lower the standards but trust me the Ivy’s do not.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What do they usually major in?
Probably some easy bullshit majors?

Such venom. So much jealousy.

DP here. I think posters, and people in general, resent that the athletes are given scholarships and put on a pedestal. Don't act perplexed.

There are no athletic scholarships at Ivys. Only need-based ones.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:In case you can’t tell, I don’t hate Harvard as an alum, but I don’t think an already privileged group of students deserve self-perpetuating privileges from alumni. If they are that good, let them compete on the open market.

Newsflash: It’s a rigged market in a systemically racist country.

Newsflash: And always has been.

Newsgladh: you’re a tool

“Newsgladh”? Is that Gaelic?

[Anonymous]

I don’t understand the connection between student athlete and career unless the student is seeking a career in athletics? Unless seeking a sports career, it’s Lille asking what type of career can my son who participated in the Greek System look forward to?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What do they usually major in?
Probably some easy bullshit majors?

Such venom. So much jealousy.

DP here. I think posters, and people in general, resent that the athletes are given scholarships and put on a pedestal. Don't act perplexed.

Athletes are NOT given athletic scholarships at any Ivy or most top schools.

And athletes for centuries have been put on pedestals going back to Ancient Greece. And not totally unfounded, IMO. Excelling at a sport is a culmination of talent and very hard work for years.