'15 GA WR Preston Williams (UT Signee 2/4/15)

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Volnukem said:
I'm calling bull. Many schools including UT don't require the writing section. I don't think the NCAA tracks the writing score either.
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7167, then 7170, then my attempt at humor by trying to stitch a string together.

Of coarse... I came up short.
 
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The first time I took the ACT was on the day of the 2004 Alabama game. A win for our Vols and Tmatthews19, might I add.
 
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BleedingButch said:
Same here, I play world of Warcraft and make more in blood mana in one week than NFL players make in an entire career.
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Got ya

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Face said:
Are we talkin Peyton career or Ryan Sutter career?
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Practice squad guys can earn over 300K if they stay with the same team for a calendar year, so that's still living comfortably if the player is frugal with their spending.
 
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sanddune50 said:
Practice squad guys can earn over 300K if they stay with the same team for a calendar year, so that's still living comfortably if the player is frugal with their spending.
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At 300k, you don't even have to be THAT frugal. Just live like a reasonably normal human being. It never ceases to amazes at the number of professional athletes that end up bankrupt due to poor investments and/or absurdly frivolous spending habits.
 
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Volnatic said:
At 300k, you don't even have to be THAT frugal. Just live like a reasonably normal human being. It never ceases to amazes at the number of professional athletes that end up bankrupt due to poor investments and/or absurdly frivolous spending habits.
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Agreed. I was factoring in that one year may be all a practice squad guy gets. Either way, I would have loved to have been a marginal NFL practice squad guy for a couple of years out of college and parlay that into a career outside of football.
 
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sanddune50 said:
Agreed. I was factoring in that one year may be all a practice squad guy gets. Either way, I would have loved to have been a marginal NFL practice squad guy for a couple of years out of college and parlay that into a career outside of football.
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Absolutely.
 
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Volnatic said:
At 300k, you don't even have to be THAT frugal. Just live like a reasonably normal human being. It never ceases to amazes at the number of professional athletes that end up bankrupt due to poor investments and/or absurdly frivolous spending habits.
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99% sure practice squad (or anyone in nfl) don't get paid in the off-season. They get checks every week during the season. Might be different for roster guys, but I'm almost positive practice guys only get paid during season.
 
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jave36 said:
99% sure practice squad (or anyone in nfl) don't get paid in the off-season. They get checks every week during the season. Might be different for roster guys, but I'm almost positive practice guys only get paid during season.
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You're probably right, and they don't tend to have terribly long careers if they aren't on the 85-man roster...but a couple of years on a practice squad with reasonable saving of your money (coupled with a relatively easy transition into a job back in your college's town), and you're doing ok for yourself.
 
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It doesn't take much to make an 18. If you truly had a 2.5 GPA in high school then that should be a walk in the park. My only problem with this is the NCAA should have let him know either before or after he graduated that this may be a problem. There is no excuse for waiting until right before fall practice. Considering the sheer amount of money these student athletes make the NCAA this is about the most asinine thing that any credible business/organization/government entity would attempt if there were a shred of integrity in it. I honestly can't believe they don't have the money to hire enough people to do this job sooner...hell..all of H&R Block is off after april and they will work for cheap and can't be that bad at math and compliance.
 
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Originally Posted by BleedingButch:
Yea another good thing about having a big brain is that I make more in a year than the average NFL player

But do you have an oak desk and 50inch macbook
 
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If

1. The staff has really known about this longer than we have.

And

2. All he needs is an 18.


Then we'll be fine here. Our academic support staff is great and Preston isn't a dumb kid. This could be a set back for him, but we should be fine long term if the two things above are fine.
 
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