If you're very lucky, that career you want to do is in a high paying field.
If you're super very lucky, you are good enough at football to enter the high-paying life style of a top draft pick in the NFL.
And that's where we are today: Andre Smith is a super lucky giant who is blessed with being roughly the size of a Frigidaire (6'4" and 340 pounds) while still owning some athletic ability. He's on the short list of must haves for NFL teams: a bulldozer for the offensive line.
Most of us will never reach 340 pounds even if we dine solely on Krispy Kreme milkshakes. It's one of two traits football coaches can't teach: size and speed. In other words, Smith is one
He was so good in college that he didn't even need to stay for a senior year. He was slated to be a top pick in this year's NFL draft and ensuring him of economic stability at age 22. That's worth repeating: DURING ONE OF THE WORST RECESSIONS IN RECENT U.S. HISTORY, HE WILL BE A MILLIONAIRE AT AGE 22.
All he needed to do was stay in shape and show what he could do at the NFL combine.
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Anyone want a big strong lineman who may or may not make it to practice everyday?
I know the NFL is a soulless, pride crushing league. They parade new draftees around like cattle and point out every thing that might be wrong with them. You have to be mentally ready to go through that nonsense.
So why would Smith forgo a year of college to get there if he didn't want to deal with it? It doesn't take a genius to realize that there is nothing more nocuous to NFL Draft stock than flakiness. H
The odds are Smith just cost himself about $20 million and a reputation by either listening to a greedy agent or by just following his wallet instead of his heart. That's a mistake that might make him do the Truffle Shuffle in anger when he realized what he's done to his draft stock.
He probably won't feel too bad though. He's still going to be a millionaire. Unless, of course, he goes AWOL again. The chicken fried steak is calling....
Not so fast. If we consider the extent to which his aorta is likely clogged, I'd argue that Smith did, in fact, follow his heart.
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