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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Don't most recruited athletes end up teaching sports in high school? I have never met a doctor or surgeon who was previously an athlete. Perhaps we move in different circles. [/quote]

This is perhaps the dumbest question I’ve seen on DCUM. We definitely move in different circles. 
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That was remarkably dumb.[/quote]

Hmmmm....touched a nerve there didn't I?[/quote]

Interesting take. I attended a Midwestern HS with about a 60/40 white/black enrollment, mostly working class with some middle class (journalists, professors, research scientists). There were a number of former pro athletes on the school staff. Nearly all had gotten injured in their pro careers, sadly during an era where they were shot up with pain killers and pushed back out on the field. They now had a teaching load and all of them were head/assistant coaches. They were great role models and kept some of the  student athletes busy and out of trouble. A few of the athletes went on to pro careers - two of them very, very successful and one a household name. But there were many who had no prospect in playing in college, but ended up enrolling in and graduating from college because of these coach mentors.

I don't expect every athlete - or every college student - to be able to operate on a spine or a knee. But I really appreciate when former athletes inspire a range of students with a range of academic/athletic abilities to be the best they can be. [/quote]

A lot of former college athletes and professional athletes work as coaches at the high school level.  Particularly in mens high school sports these
coaches provide positive male role models to vulnerable at risk kids at the high school many of whom have no Dads or other male models in their lives.  [/quote]

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