Exactly what I came in to say. It is exactly this kind of thinking that gets so many young people in to trouble. In fact, the football players that don't make the NFL probably got a great deal.<p>Every year there are a large number of students that go deeply into debt with the belief that they will come out groomed for a financially rewarding future.<p>Contrast this with D1 football players who are typically on scholarship. The football player may be just as unprepared as the diligent student, but they probably have much less college debt.