It took me about 2 hours with 4 Meowths . I guess I just have bad luck . <| sep |> That ' s my favorite , too ! <| sep |> Damn I missed it then . I probably would ' ve jumped on that immediately . <| sep |> The value of a degree doesn ' t vary as much as you seem to think based on what you put into it except for jobs in the STEM field . If a third of people don ' t ever work in their field of study it ' s pretty clear that most people aren ' t really using their degrees all that much . You know what they call a doctor who made straight C ' s in college ? Doctor . Perhaps a small segment of football players would have pursued more difficult degrees , but mostly it simply doesn ' t matter . The average SAT scores for college football and basketball players is 220 points lower than the average college student . Yeah , they work hard , and yeah , some of them are highly intelligent , but in aggregate if college athletes didn ' t have college sports many if not most of them wouldn ' t be getting a college degree at all . The fact that a college coach makes money doesn ' t really mean anything . You know what most college coaches did in college ? Played sports . So playing college sports doesn ' t just give you a degree , it helps qualify you for the same jobs that you are calling overpaid . I think college sports detracts from the real aim of education , but I ' m not crying for adults who choose to pursue their dream in sports and who get a degree along the way .