“The unique experience of combining education with athletics at the collegiate level is available to some 360,000 student-athletes each year out of the many millions enrolled in America’s colleges and universities. For the vast majority of you, this will be the culmination of your athletics participation experience. The odds of a college football player making it in the NFL are less than 6,000 to 1 (some 250 drafted each year), and less than 2 percent of all college basketball players will make it in the NBA (only 50 are drafted each year). Obtaining a college degree is vital for every student-athlete.” --Myles Brand, NCAA President