They didn't really go to school anyway

[Zambo]

http://www.espn.com/blog/pittsburgh...how-three-steelers-turned-uf-dreams-into-130m

Article on three Gators for the 08 championship team still playing together in Pittsburgh. I thought the last paragraph was interesting.

"I thought we were all going to leave school together [in 2009]," Pouncey said. "Then Marcus and my brother decided to stay. They didn't really go to school anyway. They had a good time."

 

[MidwestChomp]

Well that just makes me proud

 

[Gatorraid81]

The players go to school now and we suck

 

[Durty South Swamp]

fo shiz my brizzo.

 

[Zambo]

Well that just makes me proud

Don't it though?

 

[Floridagator]

http://www.espn.com/blog/pittsburgh...how-three-steelers-turned-uf-dreams-into-130m

Article on three Gators for the 08 championship team still playing together in Pittsburgh. I thought the last paragraph was interesting.

Don't it though?

I'd like to see interviews of NFL players talking about what a joke the NCAA and college football is. Can you imagine the stories you'd hear. Really college is a minor league program for the NFL

 

[AugustaGator]

I'd like to see interviews of NFL players talking about what a joke the NCAA and college football is. Can you imagine the stories you'd hear. Really college is a minor league program for the NFL

This is why it will fail.

 

[rogdochar]

Jeez, these are guys that were supposed to be launched right by Sesame Street. Didn't others pay for that too (PBS)?

 

[Bernardo de la Paz]

I didn't really go to school either.

 

[Zambo]

I didn't really go to school either.

Pretty obvious.

 

[Okeechobee Joe]

I cringe each time I hear the term "student athlete"!because Iknow it is largely a damn joke. And what also bothers the hell out of me is these liberal institutions of higher education who are so quick to moralize on certain issues but are so quick to look the other way when it comes to peddling their brand names on the athletic fields and courts.

There are always exceptions. There is the former Penn State player, John Urshel, who is studying for his PhD in mathematics at MIT while playing in the NFL. https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.bu...neman-john-urschel-starting-phd-at-mit-2016-5

John Urshel might be in the genius category for all I know. What I would like to acknowledge are football players who are average students actually taking legitimate courses and earning legitimate degrees. Or just cut out the hypocrisy and say we have sold out to a bunch of hired guns. At least I could live with that. Pay for play, but call it what it is.

 

[Marianna-FL_Gator]

I didn't really go to school either.

I did but after football season was over they sent me home as much as possible

 

[InstiGATOR1]

I'd like to see interviews of NFL players talking about what a joke the NCAA and college football is. Can you imagine the stories you'd hear. Really college is a minor league program for the NFL

Some of them might even be true. I will be surprised if Meyer/Machen really undermined what UF had so before them to the extent that UF did not monitor and penalize class attendanc, but then maybe they were that corrupt.