Never come out. WOW. Thsts a stunning number. I had no idea. Where do they go? Quit the sport?
I was reading where some of the kids daddy ball Deion fired. One went to a tiny little D2 school. Another went to some western Chattanooga community college. So those weren't steps up from d1 Colorado.
I guess if you're a kid at a d1 power 5 school you're most likely to end up somewhere. I mean if you got a scholarship to USC even if you bomb out, you can probably end up at a Chattanooga or a western Arizona or something.
But what about all those kids who are leaving Western Kentucky or Northern Arizona or eastern Texas? I presume they are doing so thinking they can step up to a larger better or bigger school. The kids of all ages over estimate their own value and probably a lot of those kids End up working in a grocery store
Entering the portal is a risk for half the guys as you mention. For half they would have been better off taking a medical retirement on schollie. Or finishing out school on their own dime.
The odds are so long of making it to the NFL. And even then, the average career is 4 years. NFL ( Not For Long).
I think Dieion single handlidly moved that by 10% with what he did last year.
I think some of the guys that entered the portal were nudged in by their existing team and those guys end up making a high percentage of the fast food industry work "force"
Like DeBeaner. He entered the message board transfer portal and never came out. 🤷🏽♂️