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Take a look sometime at the list of schools that have abysmal grad rates.  It's depressing.  It's maybe hundreds of kids each year that leave without football in their future or a marketable degree (or any degree).  Meanwhile Stanford is graduating kids with degrees and a chance in many cases to pay for a year of grad school by playing football in situations where they might see the field more than at Stanford.  That seems like a program discriminator  worth keeping in recruits' consciousness.  Won't have much traction with a lot of HS players trying to make a college decision, but it's visible,demonstrable evidence of how a Stanford degree can help beyond the normal college playing career. It might be a persuasive factoid (among others) with the type of student who considers Stanford.

I agree with everything you said here, but please be careful about adding it to the recruiting pitch. Remember, all these kids (well, most) as positive an NFL career awaits them prior to becoming doctors and rocket scientists (and hedge fund managers,) especially the offerees in '16 and '17.

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Take a look sometime at the list of schools that have abysmal grad rates.  It's depressing.  It's maybe hundreds of kids each year that leave without football in their future or a marketable degree (or any degree).  Meanwhile Stanford is graduating kids with degrees and a chance in many cases to pay for a year of grad school by playing football in situations where they might see the field more than at Stanford.  That seems like a program discriminator  worth keeping in recruits' consciousness.  Won't have much traction with a lot of HS players trying to make a college decision, but it's visible,demonstrable evidence of how a Stanford degree can help beyond the normal college playing career. It might be a persuasive factoid (among others) with the type of student who considers Stanford.

I agree with everything you said here, but please be careful about adding it to the recruiting pitch. Remember, all these kids (well, most) as positive an NFL career awaits them prior to becoming doctors and rocket scientists (and hedge fund managers,) especially the offerees in '16 and '17.