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Real Life Wednesdays (Real World)

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http://buckeyextra.dispatch.com/content/stories/2014/05/16/crash-course-on-real-world.html
Ohio State football: Crash course on 'real world'

Luke Fedlam had some sobering news during a presentation to Ohio State football players a couple of weeks ago, and it was presented in a pie chart with an NFL logo in the middle of it.

“Some 78 percent of NFL players go broke, or suffer from severe financial difficulties, within two years of leaving the league,” said Fedlam, whose chart represented information gained from the NFL Players Association and Sports Illustrated.

The room was silent.

That’s the impact OSU coach Urban Meyer seeks in programs that he and his staff have named “real life Wednesdays”, in which his players are exposed to all manner of presentations, from business, sports entertainment, legal and other leaders from outside the football program.

It’s a program Meyer started at Florida, he said, after the Gators won their second national championship in three years in 2008. Meyer said Chuck Heater, an assistant coach on that staff, told him, “ ‘You know, Coach, 61 million people watched that game on TV, and coaches get all these raises and (athletic directors) get their raises. But what do the players get?’ ”

Players get a full scholarship, the pledge to push them toward a degree, and training that might help them advance to the NFL, but colleges aren’t obligated to do much more. Meyer believed there was an obligation to help players prepare for the real world once their playing days are over, and he thought an obvious step would be exposure to people with real-world experience and success.

Which circles back to Fedlam. An attorney with the Columbus firm Kegler Brown Hill and Ritter, his expertise is business, and he advises sports and entertainment clients on complex business and personal needs. Before that, he served as a wealth manager for professional athletes, so he knows firsthand the pitfalls players face of having a lot of money and not having a clue what to do with it, or with whom to trust it. He embraced the chance to spread some of that knowledge during an hour-long session with current Buckeyes players.

“The ‘real life Wednesday’ program and all the things they are doing here at Ohio State … goes above and beyond, and this is the type of stuff that players need,” Fedlam said. “Really, just from preparing for the real world, when you don’t know what to expect, a lot of times it’s easy to just not do anything.

“But when you have some insight and you can start to see how people — especially for guys who aren’t going to play professional — when they can start to see people who are working with professional athletes, or are in the sports world, or even people who are doing things like owning businesses, restaurants and things like that, to be able to see what it takes to actually achieve that, that’s great stuff.”

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http://www.ohiostatebuckeyes.com/sports/m-footbl/spec-rel/030916aac.html

REAL LIFE WEDNESDAY SERIES OPENS WITH ROGER GOODELL
NFL Commissioner tells students to take advantage of their opportunities at Ohio State
March 9, 2016

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COLUMBUS, Ohio – The fourth season of coach Urban Meyer’s Real Life Wednesday program opened Wednesday morning in the Fawcett Center Auditorium with NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell, one of the most powerful figures in sports, the featured speaker. The program was open to student-athletes from all 36 of Ohio State’s varsity sports and athletic administrators with an estimated crowd of about 350 in attendance.

Goodell answered questions for about 40 minutes from student-athletes and responded to comments from the NFL’s Troy Vincent, a key member of Goodell’s staff and an expert in player development. One of his first questions was on what it takes to succeed/play in the NFL.

Goodell’s response could become the first chapter in a Real Life Wednesday 101 text. Speaking on behalf of all Ohio State students and not just the athletes, he said “you all have a great opportunity by being at Ohio State University. That is an advantage right out of the box. And the big thing is to take advantage of this opportunity.
 
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