These are the survey questions I used in the thesis to understand how the players in my data set made their decisions to either go to college or sign their professional contracts.  As you can see, there are slightly different versions for the college players I sampled versus the professional players sampled.  You can check out the data I collected by accessing the links to Frequency Distributions and Open-Ended Responses on the main Appendices page.

Professional Player Thesis Survey

College Player Thesis Survey

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