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How Much Money I Made In College


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00:00:00.000 | I was the number one prospect in the country.
00:00:02.340 | I think I had $800 a month to spend.
00:00:04.940 | I'm glad that they transitioned to paying players.
00:00:07.180 | It just, if you're getting paid millions of dollars at 17,
00:00:09.900 | let guys just go from high school to the league
00:00:12.320 | at that point.
00:00:13.160 | It kind of makes the college concept of you're all
00:00:15.620 | in the grind together, it kind of changes that.
00:00:17.840 | I would get an $1,800 stipend check every single month.
00:00:20.680 | Now I think about the guy who's getting the automatic deal
00:00:23.580 | that doesn't, his second string on the football team,
00:00:26.100 | he makes $50,000 a year.
00:00:27.960 | That's different from everybody else.
00:00:30.120 | The guys who are making the $6 million in basketball,
00:00:32.940 | they're probably going to go to the league.
00:00:34.500 | But the guy who has half a million in his bank
00:00:36.360 | and is never going to go play football again
00:00:38.000 | and has to go work a sales job, that's a hell of a savings,