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How to be a college football star without going to class

theblaze.com · 2h · first reportShare

The stereotype of the academically challenged athlete who gets away with skipping class is so overused it's almost expected. That's why when a college football player recently revealed he was working at a golf course and not going to class, it seemed almost too ridiculous to be real. 'Nine Houston student-athletes entered the season having already earned an undergraduate degree.' This isn't a trope, however. It's a real-life scenario. South Carolina quarterback LaNorris Sellers has no school this semester, unless he counts preparing for football games. Sellers instead goes to a local golf course, where he is practicing "facility management" by "cutting grass and picking up balls," Fox News reported . Another example is recent NFL Draft pick Carson Beck from the University of Miami, who had six years of NCAA eligibility due to COVID-19, but he was blasted online back in January for saying he had "no class" and had actually graduated two years earlier. As easy as it is to believe that co