re: Dell McGee signs 2 year extension

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Understand what you are saying, but a regular student would be paying out that amount of money.

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A regular student isn't expected to devote 40-50 hours a week to weight training, practicing, learning, and traveling to benefit the school's image with their play, either.

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If kid has that opportunity and does not take advantage of it, then that is his fault.

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I don't diagree. And some schools do a good job of holding kids to this expecation while others don't seem to make a good faith effort. Part of that comes down to recruiting guys that simply aren't prepared to succeed in a place like Athens or Gainesville but may be better off in a less rigorous environment like Hattiesburg or a JUCO. I would be in favor of further increasing NCAA entrance requirements across the board for this reason. Give those underprepared students a chance and a reason to catch up by going prep or JUCO. Of course, this already happens to some degree but plenty of underprepared students still make it through to D1 and can't hack it and they either get booted or schools are forced to cover for them.

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I doubt if any school does that.

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I'm embellishing the sales pitch but of course schools sell an NFL future and their NFL pedigrees. They may not lay out the years a kid will play in the NFL but they certainly plant the seed of what can be if they sign with University X.

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The players have access to more help to get that degree than most students....and for free. they have tutors and advisors.

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So does every other student on campus (all for free btw) but, again, the effort I'm talking about isn't necessarily remediating students when they get to school. That's an easy solution to throw money that. I'm referring moreso to what some kids are being told in recruiting and the fact that if a kid goes pro, not all schools are going to support all former student-athletes in finishing up their degree in the offseason. FWIW UGA does as well as some other major programs so this is moreso to say that the system should standardize this practice.