7 Year-Olds Getting College Offers

[OldSchoolLion]

At 5:03...Lane Kiffin says they call the family before making an offer to make sure the kid is mature enough and won't let it go to his head...a 9 year-old??  At 7:10 ...Evans is opening a school.....is this the future?  ...and the 7 year old expecting a college offer

Sorry, but there is something creepy about grown men calling for my 10 year-old boy.   I don't care WHAT they are offering.  We are not recruiting our future brain surgeons at this age, so why does a kid need to have his whole life planned so early?  

We have brainwashed an entire generation into thinking a college degree is everything, and the ends justifies the means to get one.  There are thousands of people out there with college degrees interviewing for $10-$12/hour jobs..and cannot land them because they are "overqualified."  Check out the article below, which shows the impact this craziness is having on our youth.  And we have a growing epidemic with teenagers self-medicating with depressants like Xanax to deal with stress.

http://www.apa.org/news/press/releases/2018/01/perfectionism-young-people.aspx

We are turning our kids into rock stars at very young ages, yet we bash millenials for being self-absorbed, flaky, and expecting too much too quick.  ...hmmm    

 

[nolebull813]

It doesn't make any sense because none of these coaches will even be at that school by the time these kids are college bound. 

[DisabledAccount]

2 minutes ago, nolebull813 said:

It doesn't make any sense because none of these coaches will even be at that school by the time these kids are college bound. 

The kid probably won't end up even considering the school when Time comes for that very reason 

[DarterBlue2]

There are few 7 year olds, if any, that one can say with near certainty will be a future college star. Too much physical development left, no assurance that the interest or work ethic will be there, kid develops other interests, family circumstances, etc., etc. 

None of this makes any sense. 

[Proseteye]

How many college football players actually graduate from the colleges that they play for? It's only 57%. How many of those degrees are totally worthless in the job market. Probably most. Only 9 in 10,000 (.09%) of HS players, that go on to play for colleges, are ever drafted by the NFL. Not much better than a HS student ever becoming an Astronaut. So, 43% don't even get degrees, and the rest mostly get degrees that look good hanging on a wall. Why, pray tell, is a 7 year old playing football anyway? He's only a short time out of the Womb for crying out loud.