59% of all high school varsity football and basketball players have the belief that they will receive a college scholarship upon graduation.
In actuality, 98 out of 100 varsity high school athletes involved in all sports will never play in the college ranks.
Also, only 1 out of 12,000 college student athletes will ever have the opportunity to become a professional athlete in any sport.
For the sport of football only 1 in every 5,200 college players will have the opportunity to become a professional in their sport.
At present, 67% of all players in the National Football League (NFL) do not possess a college degree.
Currently the average playing career in the NFL last only 3.5 years.