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but forgetting your student ID number on a final exam should not force you to forfeit your athletic scholarship, probably the only reason why you are attending a college. Instead of improving on his MSU receiving records, and probably his mind, Shabaj is headed for the uncertain world of the NFL, which chews up and spits out wide receivers like so much confetti. And he's going to the NFL without a college degree, which, should he not make a team this year, could leave him spinning slowly in the wind. NU had a player who left college early, Darnell Autry. He's still one of NU's top rushers, even without his senior year, but he's back on campus finishing his degree, 10 years after his class graduated. He found that its a cold hard world out there without that piece of paper that says you know what you know. Autry is back at NU, learning more about his craft, learning theater with students who barely remember NU's #2 career rusher. I also finished up at NU in my mid 20's after being out in the world - I know the value of that piece of paper. I think Darnell knows it too. So I guess I'm just amazed that Michigan State would bounce a kid for failing to put a number on a paper that probably had his name on the top, but then MSU is a big university and it would be too much for a prof to look at his class list and make a phone call. Yeah, doing that is probably a violation of some obscure rule somewhere, but its seems awfully petty when a kids' future is potentially on the line. But then all bureaucracy can be petty, can't it.
