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High School / NFL
Posted on 10/5/08 at 7:48 pm
Posted on 10/5/08 at 7:48 pm
Watching the game tonight and noticed several players, during introductions, gave where they attended high school, not college. Anyone out there know the rules for playing in the NFL if you do not attend college. Do guys have to wait a few years then ask a Pro team for a try out, ashamed of the college they went to, what gives ?
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Posted on 10/5/08 at 7:48 pm to hancheye
i love you
Posted on 10/5/08 at 7:50 pm to SlowFlowPro
shite I hope you are female !
Posted on 10/5/08 at 7:51 pm to hancheye
3 years from graduation sweetheart
Posted on 10/5/08 at 7:51 pm to hancheye
you gotta be fresh 
This post was edited on 10/5/08 at 7:52 pm
Posted on 10/5/08 at 7:54 pm to tubucoco
No, I think slowflowpro is a road whore.
Posted on 10/5/08 at 8:00 pm to hancheye
I really wish someone out there would answer my damn question, I am really curious.
Posted on 10/5/08 at 8:04 pm to tubucoco
no idea but good to see another McKinney tiger...
Posted on 10/5/08 at 8:05 pm to hancheye
quote:
I really wish someone out there would answer my damn question
look up
Posted on 10/5/08 at 8:17 pm to Etiger83
Before you ask, here are some of the reasons:
LINK
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Dr. McKeag says football's brutality requires excessive strength, even more so than other sports. He concedes that a handful of high school stars might possess the physical attributes needed to play professional football, but even those rare talents would suffer under the game's crushing psychological burden.
His overwhelming concern focuses on the cutthroat culture of pro football. Unlike other sports leagues, he says, the environment of an NFL locker room requires maturity and mental toughness beyond what any teenager possesses.
In baseball, drafting teenagers before they've seen a college campus is routine. Not so in football, where, critics charge, a cartel between colleges and the NFL keeps players from having any leverage until they've spent three years toiling on Saturdays instead of Sundays.
The punishing demands of pro football, he says, would crush most 17- and 18-year-olds. In addition, Mr. Butler says temptations to try their luck in the draft would cost many young players a chance to go to college and develop career alternatives if football doesn't pan out."It's just a bad idea all the way around," he says. "Those boys aren't ready for the pro game. And what happens if they don't make it?"
"Look at the differences between a freshman football player and a senior," McKeag says. "It's amazing."
Beyond physical maturity, experts say allowing high school stars into the NFL draft would only exacerbate the problem of young players prematurely setting their sights on big-time sports careers.
Few high school players have to memorize revamped playbooks once a season, much less on a weekly basis, he says.
Beyond that, 18-year-olds can't knock heads with players five and 10 years older for a sustained period of time. The NFL season is far longer and more grueling than both college and high school schedules.
Most of all, Mr. Cross fears a surfeit of has-beens in their early 20s. Bounced out of the game (the average NFL career spans three to four years), or worse, and with only a high school diploma in hand, what will they do next?
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This post was edited on 10/5/08 at 8:18 pm
Posted on 10/5/08 at 8:51 pm to Geauxtiga
Thanks Geauxtiga, its appreciated. See my post on the subject of JARRETT LEE, I think most of these guys are on the rag tonight.
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