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Title: What percentage of Pro's have a college Degree?
Post by: Devon97 on January 21, 2007, 02:50:08 PM
Earned a 4 year Degree?.....not including on-line Univ of Phoenix B.S. or Community college.
Title: Re: What percentage of Pro's have a college Degree?
Post by: ribonucleic on January 21, 2007, 02:52:42 PM
I wonder what percentage of them know what "percentage" is.
Title: Re: What percentage of Pro's have a college Degree?
Post by: Campeon Del Mundo on January 21, 2007, 03:18:28 PM
with the way the US job market is going, who needs a college degree?
Title: Re: What percentage of Pro's have a college Degree?
Post by: TheAnimal on January 21, 2007, 03:19:06 PM
with the way the US job market is going, who needs a college degree?
haha ok "Campeon Del Mundo"
Title: Re: What percentage of Pro's have a college Degree?
Post by: DK II on January 21, 2007, 03:21:59 PM
I wonder what percentage of them know what "percentage" is.

lol

haha ok "Campeon Del Mundo"

ahahahaaa
Title: Re: What percentage of Pro's have a college Degree?
Post by: Anal Iceman Lubeth on January 21, 2007, 03:41:52 PM
with the way the US job market is going, who needs a college degree?

send some of those jobs my way.  i'm a graphics editor and their ain't shit.
Title: Re: What percentage of Pro's have a college Degree?
Post by: realkarateblackbelt on January 21, 2007, 03:42:28 PM
37.6%
Title: Re: What percentage of Pro's have a college Degree?
Post by: Ozzy on January 21, 2007, 03:43:29 PM
I thought most of them were personal trainers, or had been personal trainers before turning pro.
Title: Re: What percentage of Pro's have a college Degree?
Post by: TheAnimal on January 21, 2007, 03:44:15 PM
send some of those jobs my way.  i'm a graphics editor and their ain't shit.
just keep on pumping out photoshops of steve blechman and you should be fine
Title: Re: What percentage of Pro's have a college Degree?
Post by: Anal Iceman Lubeth on January 21, 2007, 03:45:01 PM
just keep on pumping out photoshops of steve blechman and you should be fine

I got banned from MD site for saying things that weren't that bad at all, so i thought id' return the love :)
Title: Re: What percentage of Pro's have a college Degree?
Post by: TheAnimal on January 21, 2007, 03:51:56 PM
I got banned from MD site for saying things that weren't that bad at all, so i thought id' return the love :)
Which were?
Title: Re: What percentage of Pro's have a college Degree?
Post by: bigdumbbell on January 21, 2007, 03:53:47 PM
first, we have to know how many Pro's there are before we can determine an answer.
Title: Re: What percentage of Pro's have a college Degree?
Post by: Hulkster on January 21, 2007, 04:01:04 PM
and then, we have to figure out what percentage of them graduated from college... 8)
Title: Re: What percentage of Pro's have a college Degree?
Post by: Anal Iceman Lubeth on January 21, 2007, 04:08:54 PM
Which were?

that punk valvolino said it was a hardcore uncensored no BS zone. so i asked him why he kept BSing us about whooting shit in his arms.  i came home that night and everything i posted was invisible.
Title: Re: What percentage of Pro's have a college Degree?
Post by: G o a t b o y on January 21, 2007, 04:13:18 PM
What percentage of Pro's have a college Degree?


A lower percentage than you would find in the general population.


Hope this helps.
Title: Re: What percentage of Pro's have a college Degree?
Post by: Ozzy on January 21, 2007, 04:19:15 PM
that punk valvolino said it was a hardcore uncensored no BS zone. so i asked him why he kept BSing us about whooting shit in his arms.  i came home that night and everything i posted was invisible.


Aaahahaha, what a dirtbag
Title: Re: What percentage of Pro's have a college Degree?
Post by: Anal Iceman Lubeth on January 21, 2007, 04:22:31 PM

Aaahahaha, what a dirtbag

i know.  i also post here and on getanabolics.  don't have a job since 2007 started so i just hang out online a lot.
Title: Re: What percentage of Pro's have a college Degree?
Post by: Ozzy on January 21, 2007, 04:25:52 PM
I was talking about Oilino.
Title: Re: What percentage of Pro's have a college Degree?
Post by: serpentine007 on January 21, 2007, 04:33:53 PM
What percentage of pro's SPEAK ENGLISH?????????













....................Hope this helps.
Title: Re: What percentage of Pro's have a college Degree?
Post by: Earl1972 on January 21, 2007, 05:08:42 PM
what percentage of pro athletes would go to school if not for sports?

bodybuilding is no different than any other sport :)

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Title: Re: What percentage of Pro's have a college Degree?
Post by: ribonucleic on January 21, 2007, 05:31:12 PM
bodybuilding is no different than any other sport

Except, unlike you, most sports fans don't pay money for their idols' discarded uniforms.
Title: Re: What percentage of Pro's have a college Degree?
Post by: Earl1972 on January 21, 2007, 05:32:42 PM
Except, unlike you, most sports fans don't pay money for their idols' discarded uniforms.

haha how many times can you use the same weak insult my brand new stalker ;D

you trying to make a name for yourself around here by calling out a "somebody" like me 8)

E
Title: Re: What percentage of Pro's have a college Degree?
Post by: bigdumbbell on January 21, 2007, 05:33:40 PM
Except, unlike you, most sports fans don't pay money for their idols' discarded uniforms.

baseball, football?
Title: Re: What percentage of Pro's have a college Degree?
Post by: Earl1972 on January 21, 2007, 05:36:29 PM
baseball, football?

yeah really these idiots act like that doesn't happen in the "real" sports

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Title: Re: What percentage of Pro's have a college Degree?
Post by: ribonucleic on January 21, 2007, 05:42:17 PM
yeah really these idiots act like that doesn't happen in the "real" sports

Sounds like a tacit admission of Levrone-posing-suit collecting to me.  ;D

To answer your earlier question: I'm sure I'll stop doing this bit when I get tired of it. But I doubt that will be any time soon.
Title: Re: What percentage of Pro's have a college Degree?
Post by: columbusdude82 on January 21, 2007, 05:45:33 PM
Does Bob Chick have any statistics like this?

He really should consider publishing some general statistics about IFBB pros without infringing on anyone's privacy, like percentage of college degrees, higher degrees, stuff like that...
Title: Re: What percentage of Pro's have a college Degree?
Post by: Earl1972 on January 21, 2007, 09:52:16 PM
Sounds like a tacit admission of Levrone-posing-suit collecting to me.  ;D

To answer your earlier question: I'm sure I'll stop doing this bit when I get tired of it. But I doubt that will be any time soon.

yes simple minds will continue to recycle 4 year old weak jokes rather than coming up with their own material...

E

Title: Re: What percentage of Pro's have a college Degree?
Post by: G o a t b o y on January 21, 2007, 10:59:22 PM
Does Bob Chick have any statistics like this?


I'm sure Baghdad Bob will chime in with something like "96.5% of IFBB professionals have four-year university degrees, with 56% of those having gone on to get their Master's, with 31% holding Ph D's or professional degrees.  The current Mr. O is a tenured professor at Yale when he isn't competing, and the most recent former Mr. O has accepted a research grant at Stanford."


 ::)

 
Title: Re: What percentage of Pro's have a college Degree?
Post by: BuffGoddess on January 22, 2007, 01:00:06 AM
Most of them have some sort of higher education. We all know Bodybuilding is a fleeting thing and can't be depended on for a steady paycheck for long. I personally have 5 college degrees one of them from a university in Health and Human Performance ;D
Title: Re: What percentage of Pro's have a college Degree?
Post by: divcom on January 22, 2007, 03:00:21 AM
Earned a 4 year Degree?.....not including on-line Univ of Phoenix B.S. or Community college.


What's wrong with Phoenix?
Title: Re: What percentage of Pro's have a college Degree?
Post by: kyomu on January 22, 2007, 03:26:39 AM
Separate clearly,some has even master degree. Hide is from a very good university for example. Nasser has master also.Even Paul dillet has. Tom prince also. Arnold has. Needles to say, Frank Zane.I know more but i cant remember now.
Others are very low education levels.
Title: Re: What percentage of Pro's have a college Degree?
Post by: DK II on January 22, 2007, 03:35:28 AM
Separate clearly,some has even master degree. Hide is from a very good university for example. Nasser has master also.Even Paul dillet has. Tom prince also. Arnold has. Needles to say, Frank Zane.I know more but i cant remember now.
Others are very low education levels.

What University is Hide from?
Title: Re: What percentage of Pro's have a college Degree?
Post by: kyomu on January 22, 2007, 03:38:14 AM
What University is Hide from?
Waseda
Title: Re: What percentage of Pro's have a college Degree?
Post by: DK II on January 22, 2007, 03:53:36 AM
Waseda

Really? Wow, cool. That's impressive.
Title: Re: What percentage of Pro's have a college Degree?
Post by: kyomu on January 22, 2007, 03:54:58 AM
Really? Wow, cool. That's impressive.
Because he is from Waseda daigaku barbell club.
Title: Re: What percentage of Pro's have a college Degree?
Post by: newmom on January 22, 2007, 04:56:14 AM
What's wrong with Phoenix?

divcom I don't think there is anything wrong with it. Alot of people use their on-line studies program. Nothing wrong with learning and achieving a degree
Title: Re: What percentage of Pro's have a college Degree?
Post by: G o a t b o y on January 22, 2007, 08:18:14 AM
divcom I don't think there is anything wrong with it. Alot of people use their on-line studies program. Nothing wrong with learning and achieving a degree


Most hiring managers, when looking at someone with a "degree" from an online UofP type place, do not consider it a "real" college degree.  They will almost always choose the applicant who has gotten a degree from a traditional university.


Hope this helps.
Title: Re: What percentage of Pro's have a college Degree?
Post by: newmom on January 22, 2007, 08:19:53 AM
goatboy I'm sure you are right but there is still nothing wrong with it.
Title: Re: What percentage of Pro's have a college Degree?
Post by: DK II on January 22, 2007, 08:30:02 AM
Because he is from Waseda daigaku barbell club.

Okay. Well, he managed the nyugaku shiken, so at least that must mean something.  ;D ;D
Title: Re: What percentage of Pro's have a college Degree?
Post by: divcom on January 22, 2007, 08:52:37 AM

Most hiring managers, when looking at someone with a "degree" from an online UofP type place, do not consider it a "real" college degree.  They will almost always choose the applicant who has gotten a degree from a traditional university.


Hope this helps.

I've crossed several Qwest employees in Denver with Phoenix degrees.  It's more about helping the individual advance in his or her current position. 

So...you are saying South Florida, for example, RN program is BS also?  They still have to do their clinicals in a traditional hospital setting.  Have had several students at the Hlth and Science Center.   

Bethany Howlett has a combination education with her sciences taken GW and her business (MBA/Ph.D.) at Phoenix.

Guess I'm missing something here.     
     
Title: Re: What percentage of Pro's have a college Degree?
Post by: G o a t b o y on January 22, 2007, 09:53:17 AM
I've crossed several Qwest employees in Denver with Phoenix degrees.  It's more about helping the individual advance in his or her current position. 

So...you are saying South Florida, for example, RN program is BS also?  They still have to do their clinicals in a traditional hospital setting.  Have had several students at the Hlth and Science Center.   

Bethany Howlett has a combination education with her sciences taken GW and her business (MBA/Ph.D.) at Phoenix.

Guess I'm missing something here.     
     


You're probably right about the RN thing, because it's more about state licensing than anything else.  As long as the state will accept the education and grant a license, the employer really doesn't care. Especially in light of the shortage of nurses in many places.  However, there are many who say that nursing is a field that more properly belongs in a technical or trade school than in a 4-year university, and many hospital-based RN school programs do not involve getting a college bachelor's degree.

Bethany's "MBA/PhD" would almost certainly be considered a joke by someone hiring for a position that requires one of those degrees.  She would be viewed only as someone who holds a BS degree, since that was taken at GW, but not as a "real" MBA or PhD.
Title: Re: What percentage of Pro's have a college Degree?
Post by: Man of Steel on January 22, 2007, 10:12:38 AM
with the way the US job market is going, who needs a college degree?

Over the course of the last few years I have seen several folks that are non-college graduate new hires getting paid college-graduate level dollars with very little experience in the particular field they are hired.  I guess that could be a piss off for some college graduates that busted their asses in school, but those overpaid new hires aren't going to progress anywhere else in their "careers".   I think some companies are cuttin folks a break here and there, but that same "break" also represents the pinnacle of their careers.....they'll be hard pressed to move on to higher level position and will just work that job forever.
Title: Re: What percentage of Pro's have a college Degree?
Post by: Man of Steel on January 22, 2007, 10:17:16 AM
What's wrong with Phoenix?

Nothing, but there's a vast difference between online classwork and traditional classwork.....night and day difference in my opinion.   If I received resumes from 2 applicants and both had the same degree and experience, but one earned a degree via online work and the other from traditional schooling I'd immediately be biased towards the traditionally educated applicant.   Not suggesting one is smarter than the other, but I think one has worked harder than the other.   
Title: Re: What percentage of Pro's have a college Degree?
Post by: Chick on January 22, 2007, 10:32:49 AM
Does Bob Chick have any statistics like this?

He really should consider publishing some general statistics about IFBB pros without infringing on anyone's privacy, like percentage of college degrees, higher degrees, stuff like that...

What difference would it make?

What would be the point in taking the time to conduct such a survey?
Title: Re: What percentage of Pro's have a college Degree?
Post by: G o a t b o y on January 22, 2007, 10:37:54 AM
What difference would it make?

What would be the point in taking the time to conduct such a survey?


So we can be entertained by how uneducated "professional bodybuilders" are and how woefully unprepared for "life after the IFBB" they really are.  ;D
Title: Re: What percentage of Pro's have a college Degree?
Post by: Chick on January 22, 2007, 10:48:10 AM
I would worry about yourself, and how you're going to prepare for life when you're not spending 18 out of 24 hours on a bodybuilding forum wondering about pro's and how they live their lives...
Title: Re: What percentage of Pro's have a college Degree?
Post by: G o a t b o y on January 22, 2007, 11:15:37 AM
I would worry about yourself, and how you're going to prepare for life when you're not spending 18 out of 24 hours on a bodybuilding forum wondering about pro's and how they live their lives...

18 Hours/day?   I only average 10 posts a day...   seems like you're on here more than I am, and unlike me, you DO need to worry about making a living.
Title: Re: What percentage of Pro's have a college Degree?
Post by: Special Ed on January 22, 2007, 11:41:37 AM
TOP TEN PRO BODYBUILDER ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENTS (originally posted 10/31/06)

1. Ronnie Coleman - Masters Degree in Public Speaking
2. Victor Martinez - Devry Institute MBA in Gym Business Operations
3. Milos Sarcev - PhD in Experimental and Applied Petroleum Sciences
4. Flex Wheeler - MBA in Marketing/Customer Relations
5. Dennis James - Learning Annex Certificate in Import/Export Businesses
6. Mustafa Mohammed - Advanced Degree from Carlton Sheets: How to Buy Property with Little or No Money of Your Own
7. Melvin Anthony - Beauty School certificate as Manicurist
8. Bob Cicherillo - B.S. in Labor Relations
9. Craig Titus - Correspondence Degree in Cremation from Phoenix Online University
10. King Kamali - JD and LLM from Harvard Law School

Special "Some Cum Loudly" Ed
Title: Re: What percentage of Pro's have a college Degree?
Post by: kyomu on January 22, 2007, 11:53:52 AM
Okay. Well, he managed the nyugaku shiken, so at least that must mean something.  ;D ;D
Yeah. I dont know what faculity he was in, but its extremely tough to pass the entrance exam of waseda.
As you know,japanese university are very tough to enter.
Title: Re: What percentage of Pro's have a college Degree?
Post by: Chick on January 22, 2007, 11:55:15 AM
18 Hours/day?   I only average 10 posts a day...   seems like you're on here more than I am, and unlike me, you DO need to worry about making a living.

"seems like it"?

I've got 3,000 posts...OVER 7 YEARS.

With over 5,000 since you came on board...looks like you need to take a math course.
Title: Re: What percentage of Pro's have a college Degree?
Post by: kyomu on January 22, 2007, 11:58:29 AM
I would worry about yourself, and how you're going to prepare for life when you're not spending 18 out of 24 hours on a bodybuilding forum wondering about pro's and how they live their lives...
If Goat boy have college degree and makes more money than you,you are owned!
Title: Re: What percentage of Pro's have a college Degree?
Post by: columbusdude82 on January 22, 2007, 12:07:16 PM
What difference would it make?

What would be the point in taking the time to conduct such a survey?

It would be interesting to know for fans of the sport. Also, we can hold up the results as evidence to the prejudiced general population that bodybuilders are not just dumb meatheads.

Just a thought!!
Title: Re: What percentage of Pro's have a college Degree?
Post by: Devon97 on January 22, 2007, 12:08:20 PM
TOP TEN PRO BODYBUILDER ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENTS (originally posted 10/31/06)

1. Ronnie Coleman - Masters Degree in Public Speaking
2. Victor Martinez - Devry Institute MBA in Gym Business Operations
3. Milos Sarcev - PhD in Experimental and Applied Petroleum Sciences
4. Flex Wheeler - MBA in Marketing/Customer Relations
5. Dennis James - Learning Annex Certificate in Import/Export Businesses
6. Mustafa Mohammed - Advanced Degree from Carlton Sheets: How to Buy Property with Little or No Money of Your Own
7. Melvin Anthony - Beauty School certificate as Manicurist
8. Bob Cicherillo - B.S. in Labor Relations
9. Craig Titus - Correspondence Degree in Cremation from Phoenix Online University
10. King Kamali - JD and LLM from Harvard Law School

Special "Some Cum Loudly" Ed

AWESOME LOL!
Title: Re: What percentage of Pro's have a college Degree?
Post by: G o a t b o y on January 22, 2007, 12:30:56 PM
If Goat boy have college degree and makes more money than you,you are owned!


Trust me, in this case he's thoroughly owned.  ;)
Title: Re: What percentage of Pro's have a college Degree?
Post by: G o a t b o y on January 22, 2007, 12:34:47 PM
"seems like it"?

I've got 3,000 posts...OVER 7 YEARS.



Bob, the current incarnation of the board hasn't been around for 7 years.


The "new board" has been up maybe 4 years or so, and the most recent "server hiccup" where everyone's account got deleted, was like 3 1/2 years ago.
Title: Re: What percentage of Pro's have a college Degree?
Post by: DK II on January 22, 2007, 12:48:05 PM
Yeah. I dont know what faculity he was in, but its extremely tough to pass the entrance exam of waseda.
As you know,japanese university are very tough to enter.

Yes, that was what i meant. Impressive. Guy has brains.
Title: Re: What percentage of Pro's have a college Degree?
Post by: ribonucleic on January 22, 2007, 12:48:25 PM
What would be the point in taking the time to conduct such a survey?

Who knows? It might give you a better understanding of the athletes you're representing.  :)
Title: Re: What percentage of Pro's have a college Degree?
Post by: Camel Jockey on January 22, 2007, 12:58:28 PM
I bet a hanful have mail-order diplomas.
Title: Re: What percentage of Pro's have a college Degree?
Post by: DK II on January 22, 2007, 01:19:32 PM
I bet a hanful have mail-order diplomas.

If they are able to read the instructions and fill out the forms, yes.