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re: Mississippi State to Require Personal Finance/Dave Ramsey of all athletes
Posted on 6/10/15 at 1:21 pm to anc
Posted on 6/10/15 at 1:21 pm to anc
In theory, I think it's a good idea to introduce ALL college students to personal finance - university studies or whatever the course is called which freshmen can take covers a lot of this stuff. But it shouldn't be a requirement and to be honest this is shite that should be taught at the High School level not at the college level. A special course on it is fine but requiring all athletes to take it operates under the assumption that student athletes are both different and dumber than the student body.
Can you imagine Josh Dobbs (aerospace engineering major), Todd Kelly Jr. (biomedical engineering major) or Cam Sutton (pharmacy major) having to take this class? Not all athletes are dumb and the NFL and other pro athletes that spend all their money do so as much out of lifestyle as anything else.
Can you imagine Josh Dobbs (aerospace engineering major), Todd Kelly Jr. (biomedical engineering major) or Cam Sutton (pharmacy major) having to take this class? Not all athletes are dumb and the NFL and other pro athletes that spend all their money do so as much out of lifestyle as anything else.
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Posted on 6/10/15 at 1:48 pm to Prof
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Can you imagine Josh Dobbs (aerospace engineering major), Todd Kelly Jr. (biomedical engineering major) or Cam Sutton (pharmacy major) having to take this class?
There are a lot of smart people with advanced degrees living above their means and making foolish financial choices. I've been there. It's not about learning finance. It's more a question of changing your perspective about money and spending.
Posted on 6/10/15 at 3:58 pm to Prof
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to be honest this is shite that should be taught at the High School level not at the college level.
Yeah, but it's not being done, so the universities should just ignore it? Well it isn't something we should have to do so we're just not going to do it.
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A special course on it is fine but requiring all athletes to take it operates under the assumption that student athletes are both different and dumber than the student body.
Well...
Also, Some of these athletes are going to be making far more money than the rest of the "student body".
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Can you imagine Josh Dobbs (aerospace engineering major), Todd Kelly Jr. (biomedical engineering major) or Cam Sutton (pharmacy major) having to take this class? Not all athletes are dumb and the NFL and other pro athletes that spend all their money do so as much out of lifestyle as anything else.
I know you don't think this is the norm among student athletes. You are a lot smarter than that.
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