Somewhere near 98 percent of NCAA student-athletes will go pro in something other than sports, or so we’re told. But what about the small percentage of college students who do end up making hundreds of thousands or millions of dollars in the NFL, NBA or MLB within a few years of finishing school?
On the one hand, heck yeah – money, fame, success at the highest level. On the other hand, an alarming percentage of professional athletes are broke within a few years of the end of their careers, and the majority of their careers last no more than a few years anyway.