<p>As a baseball fan, this is one of my pet peeves. If a student is lucky enough to get a scholarship to go to college based on his baseball ability, he should take full advantage of that and get a degree. How many players have season ending injuries, or just don’t make it? So they leave school early, with no degree, and now no job. What a waste!</p>
<p>This is particularly irksome to me with players from really good schools, like Tulane, Vanderbilt, and even Rice! </p>
<p>My God, who wouldn’t want to go to Rice, and then you don’t even get a degree from there?</p>
<p>I know there’s money involved. If you don’t take that offer when you’re hot, it can cost you millions in signing bonuses. But unless you invest that money in a gold mine, it’s not going to support you the rest of your life.</p>
<p>Same thing with the kids who don’t even go to college, and sign right out of high school. Okay. You play for a couple of years. Then you get hurt. You don’t even have a degree to fall back on. And if you want to go back to school, it’s going to be on your own dime. No one’s going to give you a sports scholarship when you’re hurt.</p>
<p>It doesn’t help that they have agents pushing them to make that money so they can take their 10 percent commission.</p>
<p>Of course, not all ball players are like this. </p>
<p>We do have gems like Wally and Nick, who excelled not just at their sport, but in academics as well. They are the reason I watch LSU baseball.</p>