Five Easy Ways to Lose a Scholarship - Ethics

Tired of Free Tuition, Room & Board?  No problem.  Here are Five Easy Ways to Lose a Scholarship.

NCAA Bylaws - Unethical Conduct § 10.1: 

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        Refusing to Provide Information or Providing False Information During NCAA Investigations – Grounds for loss of an athletic scholarship.

·      Academics & Cheating – Losing a scholarship and expulsion for plagiarism creates challenging job interviews down the road!

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     Inducements & Benefits – Nothing good is free.  Fan boys & girls & boosters may offer free stuff, reduced prices, and excessive salaries to high-profile college athletes.  Identify the inducement and walk away.   

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      Banned Substances & Medications – Trading or selling prescription drugs like Adderall without a white lab coat or license is a poor life plan.

Sports Wagering (Brackets & Pools) – This only applies to enrolled college student athletes.  However, high school athletes earn bonus points from college coaches by communicating their understanding of gambling prohibitions. 

Seth Godin - Getting Started

Seth's take on breaking stuff and getting started on new stuff:

"If you need the alternative to be better than the status quo from the very start, you'll never begin."

Seth - Tribes

...the first draft is a mess; it's supposed to be.

Alabama's Nick Saban on Process Goals

Nick Saban, head coach of Alabama expects his program focus on the present: 

“Be the best [you] can be one play at a time, like it has a history and life of its own – then do that for an entire game, that is going to give [us] the best opportunity to get the results [we] want.” 

More on Process Goals in Athlete to Entrepreneur.

   https://www.amazon.com/Athlete-Entrepreneur-Skills-Future-Leaders-ebook/dp/B074JS5B47/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1502560630&sr=8-1&keywords=brian+brunkow 

Athlete to Entrepreneur: Adaptability

The Yankees HOF shortstop Derek Jeter made 56 errors in his first season of minor league ball.  A record.  He recovered. 

Athlete To Entrepreneur

Athlete To Entrepreneur - Five Skills Future Leaders Gain Thru Youth Sports

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Ch 1 Excerpt - GRIT

REJECTION HAPPENS.  Sometimes again and again and sometimes again.  Colonel Sanders (KFC) was broke.  In the 1950’s (when 65 years old was old), Colonel Sanders was…really broke.  He failed as a lawyer – the demise came when The Colonel punched a client.  Ethically questionable behavior by a member of the bar.  That is tough love.  Some tough lawyering.  He then failed in selling insurance.  Following that he failed as a restaurant guy.  He was 65 years old collecting a small monthly social security check....

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