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I'd say it depends highly upon his talent level and what's being offered. If he's being offered a multi-million dollar contract out of high school, I'd say go for the athletic career. However, if it's something like what the oldest son on Home Improvement got (an offer to play professional soccer for a club team in Europe for diddly with the possibility of more money if he did really well) education would be the better investment.
It's not an either/or thing with college. He would be getting paid, in the form of scholarship money, to go to college, and that investment is much more likely to pay off in terms of long term financial stability than a sports career. The exception being if he's one of those .01 of a percent of elite athletes, the one in ten thousand, or one in a hundred thousand who make it big.
Most of the biggest successes go to college and have a big pro career afterwards. It isn't just the years that wear on an athlete, it's the physical stress, and there's a lot more of that in the pros than in college.
Gilda
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