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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]33% of D1 athletes quit their sport, 50% of those are due to injury.

It very hard to make it through all 4 years ... injury, time commitment, playing time, etc.

[b]That is why athletes are highly recruited to jobs ... it's hard and they are in a very small percentage of the population who can actually do it. [/b]

I do find it odd, though. When the chance of being an athlete is so low, and then the chance of making it 4 years is only 66%.. that I know a ton of athletes that did it and did it at highly academic schools. [/quote]

I'm calling bs on this. My husband and I both worked in recruiting for technical jobs for years. At no point was anyone ever considered because of the sport they played in high school or college. I also think the poster who mentioned special recruiting for college athletes is not being entirely honest. If there is special recruiting it is because the college is worried the athletes don't have enough to get jobs. [/quote]

And you are assuming that every industry works exactly the same way?  Regardless of any one family’s personal experience, [b]there are a lot of kids who are recruited in part due to their athletics. The ones I know all had an easy path into finance, sales, or other business-oriented fields.[/b]  The percentages of female CEOs who played college sports are really eye-opening. [/quote]

Uh huh. Sales at Best Buy. Do high school coaches get some kind of kick back for having kids signed at colleges?[/quote]

I was referencing CEOs of large companies, like the people mentioned here: https://www.inc.com/rebecca-hinds/the-1-trait-94-percent-of-c-suite-women-share-and-how-to-get-it.html .   Why are you so prejudiced against athletes, if you don’t mind sharing? [/quote]

I'm prejudiced against parents who don't do what is best for their kids. I have multiple kids all involved in sports and most of the parents I encountered were certain their kid would be a pro at whatever sport until the kid hit high school. Reality hit a good percentage of those parents in the face at the high school level. The high school stars I know have not gone on to succeed at college and none have gone pro. I know the families of several kids who've gotten great scholarships at d1 schools and I've seen what happens to those kids. [/quote]

DP.  Stop making things up. What you claim to know personally is so statistically improbable that it's obvious you are lying to anyone who can do basic probabilistic math.[/quote]

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