re: Stetson Bennett, 6 years of College and no Degree?

Honestly it sounds like he was just taking credit hours for eligibility without worrying about building those towards a degree. I forget whether it was my senior year or whether it was in grad school but at one point I was taking all electives - film, law, you name it, because I needed the hours to keep the student loan people from coming after me but I didn't actually need anything in particular at the moment in time to fulfill any degree requirements.

If you never really cared about anything other than staying eligible you could do something like that your entire time in college and never get a degree. It would be a complete waste to do that but athletes and young adults don't always make the wisest long term decisions.