<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">The University of Michigan's Fab Five were trash-talking, chest-bumping, baggy-pants-wearing kids. Their swagger and their attitude undoubtedly changed college basketball. But they were also part of a group whose names were dragged into a scandal that brought shame on U-M, which was sanctioned after some players were accused of accepting hundreds of thousands of dollars while in high school and college. Fab Fiver Jalen Rose wasn't implicated, but he admits that he's had his own slips and slides, including getting caught hanging around a Detroit crack house while a student at U-M. But, he said, he's always been aware of athletes' position as role models. He talked to the Free Press about that just before he left U-M in 1994 to accept a $10.2-million NBA contract. And being a role model is why he wanted to talk now about his latest accomplishment. Eleven years after he quit college for the NBA, Rose graduated this spring, earning a bachelor's of science degree in management studies online from the University of Maryland. A little more than 40% of male Division I college basketball players earn a degree -- and far fewer of the few who make it to the NBA earn their degrees. "Everything that kids see has an influence, good or bad," Rose said last week while kids as tall as his knees asked him for autographs outside of St. Cecelia's basketball camp on Detroit's west side. "It's a character issue, a caring issue. If they believe you practice what you preach, it gives your statements a little more value." He said he'd planned to get his degree when he quit college, but admits that in the early years, "it was mostly just talk." When he finally got serious about finishing, he took him another 5 1/2 years to work his way through that one last year of college. "I think it's great. I take my hat off to him. I congratulate him," U-M Athletic Director Bill Martin said Wednesday. "It's even harder if he did it online, simply because of the discipline that it takes to sit down every day. "It's a wonderful story about Jalen. ... Look what he's done as he matured as a young man," Martin said. Philadelphia 76er forward and former Fab Fiver Chris Webber, who does not have his college degree, said of Rose and his accomplishment Friday, "It's very important. ...I'm proud of him." Webber said he has not put the thought of getting his degree out of his mind.</div> Source
Hats off to Jalen Rose... players that don't recieve their degrees really don't know why it is so important to get them, even if you don't graduate from college during your first few years.. ( a la jump to L) They need something after their NBA careers... they can't live from 40 til death on their NBA money, at least most of them can't.
<div class="quote_poster">Quoting Mr.Wade:</div><div class="quote_post">They need something after their NBA careers... they can't live from 40 til death on their NBA money, at least most of them can't.</div> They probably could these days, even if they were to earn 2 million total in their nba career, they could live off that for 40 years probably. The interest of 2 million at 2% is 40 000 a year, which is pretty good. If they could find a 4% bond or something, they could get 80 000$ a year from interest. But I agree that they shouldn't just do nothing in their life for the next 40 years.
