GPA Is More Important Than 40 Time

I could not agree more with Marc Hansen’s article on Tuesday. Too often the talented “student”-athletes are pampered and sent from grade to grade without truly ever learning anything. To have a true shot at making it to the next level, student-athletes need to showcase their skills at the collegiate level. This requires actually studying, getting good grades, and scoring well on placement tests. A killer jump shot or a canon of an arm can’t get you a 25 on the ACT’s. Most people don’t realize that for every superstar that makes it to the NBA or NFL there are countless left out with no education to spend the rest of their lives working for minimum wage talking about how good they were and how good life could have been.