Week 7 Predicted Upsets

[donovan]

LOL...when is the last time you heard of a college student researcher getting paid for his image?

He/she would do better standing in line with the homeless to sell blood plasma.

I would think at that age, they could make more money selling sperm than plasma.

And at my age.....I am all out of product on all counts.

[Spence]

The pell grant works for players who's parents make under $20,000. or have a bunch of kids. Most people fall just short of that. All players aren't dirt poor. Lots are lower middle class or middle class and don't qualify for as much.

[billybud]

Maybe in Ohio...

Many, many of the black athletes in Florida are being raised by a single mother with multiple children....

[Spence]

I'm sure many are very poor. Many are not. AJ Hawk's parents were middle class. They couldn't help him a lot with the everyday stuff. They made too much to qualify for a pell grant. Even Clarett's mom made too much even though he had no financial help from her. Not many have Johnny Manziel's Dad, but many are just "wealthy" enough to qualify for very little.

[donovan]

And then there is some of this on a visit to a school during football season. "Mom, can we go to the store? I need some underwear." "Sure son, do not want my precious little ******* going with out clean underwear, what would happen if you had to go to the hospital and you had on dirty underwear, they would think I was a bad mother." On the way back to his abode after buying underwear and who remembers how much money worth of clothes and groceries for the wholf football team and their relatived. Son says, "Hey, did I tell you I went skydiving on our bye week. A bunch of us went. Dad, "And I suppose you spent your underwear money on skydiving tickets?" Son" Well yeah, I knew mom would buy me underwear, but you cerrtainly wouldn't pay for my skydiving escape." And who said a college education doesn't teach kids anything. Mad all over again...I calling him up right now...and to think he fathered three of the cutest grandkids around. (And turned out to be an excellent father)

[Spence]

And that is part of the college experience. Not mine though. No way I am jumping out of a plane that isn't going to crash.