Mike Eruzione
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I don't know if you follow any sports.
Quarterback at Michigan this year is going to make about $9 million.
You know, Shador Sanders, the football player, he took a pay cut to play for the Cleveland Browns.
The money he was making in Colorado.
So you're dealing with a whole different mindset now.
There's more to making money.
For me, my scholarship was plenty.
But now it's a different environment in the college sports for men and women.
There's a girl I think out in UCLA, the gymnast, that's making stupid money.
But that's just the arena we're in now that was never there when I played.
When I played, you just played.
Okay, again, crazy story.
I got asked to play on the 1976 team.
Olympic team.
And I did not want to leave Boston University.
In those days, you'd leave your school right before the Olympics and you'd go play.
In our case, we trained for six months.
It was a whole different mindset in 1980 than it was in 76.
So I had a chance to play in 76, and that was the year I thought we were going to win the national championship.
I was a junior at Boston University and decided I was going to stay at BU.