Brad Smith is the quarterback for the University of Missouri football program. If there is any young man you'd use as a model for the "student athlete", Brad would have to be in the top 10, maybe of all time. But there's even more of a reason to respect this young man:
A lot has happened since that first glimpse. He’s grown up, earned a degree, begun work on a master’s in economics. ....
So while Brad is quarterbacking the Tigers, he'll also likely be taking cupcake courses like Microeconomic Theory, Macroeconomic Theory, or Econometrics - all graduate-level stuff. As Mel Allen would say, "How about that?!!"