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Suit 'Em Up

Tigers student-athletes earn suits by attending professional development seminars.

NOTE: The CAAS/PAWS feature story first appeared in the Tigers Football GameDay program Sept. 22 when Memphis hosted South Alabama.

If you've watched recent men's and women's basketball NCAA Tournaments on television, you've seen the commercial. It runs several times in every game.

The commercial, which features NFL Hall of Famer Jerry Rice, shows student-athletes training for competition. While watching those images, Rice says: "There are over 480,000 college athletes, and only two percent will go pro. That means over 470,000 will not get a shoe contract.