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miserablerolex t1_j6dsdss wrote

Reply to comment by redd5ive in Georgia quarterback Stetson Bennett arrested on public intoxication charge in Dallas by HeStoleMyBalloons

I mean kind of what I meant, really more of I hope this doesn't become a college athlete obviously gifted with this talent and is going to publicly and disastrously throw it away just as it's starting to reach the NFL level. If there are better examples then sorry, Manziel is just the closest that comes to mind.

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tripp_hs123 t1_j6e7dxz wrote

Ok confused though. The whole point of Bennett is that he maybe has a high floor but low ceiling because he isn't that talented and gifted compared to other pro prospects.

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broad_street_bully t1_j6f0nt7 wrote

My thought is that even Bennett knows he's never making much money in the NFL.

But he's got 2 titles and God status in a college football town where his money will never be any good. He will take a few years to "go off on his own" and do "very important business things" that are all propped up by UGA boosters.

Flash forward 5-10 years and he will have a few lines of passive income from not-very-specific sources and will roll back into Athens to assume a mostly no-show $250k/yr job that mainly consists of showing up at booster events to help ring out even more money from boosters.

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kryppla t1_j6f3gls wrote

I'd be ok with that if it were me

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broad_street_bully t1_j6fhhqj wrote

Yeah. I hear ya.

While I have personal thoughts and opinions on the situation, I also have nearly two decades of experience around college football and I can guarantee that the thing I described is Bennett's worst-case scenario.

If he's lucky, he'll rack up $1M+ as a late-round pick that hangs out as a 3rd-stringer for a few years. He'll then walk straight into a previously setup hard-to-fail "president" role in some boondoggle heavily influenced by a big UGA booster.

Come 2030 or so, he'll come back to Athens and really set up shop for three more decades of living in the 1% of Clarke county so long as he makes weekly appearances on top local shows and travels to fundraising events.

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tripp_hs123 t1_j6f224i wrote

you're probably right, and that's a pretty nice life.

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jfb715 t1_j6gmy4i wrote

Or he plays backup qb in the nfl and makes millions for years of sitting on the bench

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broad_street_bully t1_j6gu8au wrote

Chase Daniel has had the world's best job for the better part of two decades.

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minneapple79 t1_j6huzmd wrote

He’ll make millions in the NFL, carrying one of those Surface Pro tablets that Brady loves to throw around.

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