1.   And colleges started losing the revenue source.

2.   But when several major colleges started recruiting him during his sophomore season, he began to think professional football was a possibility.

3.   Cash-starved colleges started looking for departments to trim.

4.   Chris Simms, son of the former New York Giants quarterback Phil Simms, made his first college start at quarterback for Texas.

5.   It is then that college starts looking good, the NBA loses its glamour, and all but the toughest fade into well-paid mediocrity.

6.   On the other hand, BYU is handing quarterback Paul Shoemaker his first college start, and there is considerable mystery about how he will handle it.

7.   Some colleges are starting to incorporate the concept into their curriculum.

8.   The threshold at which colleges start to worry has shifted in the last few years, said Levine, a former liberal arts college president.

9.   But that is changing, especially at the post-secondary level as more colleges start including personal development courses in their education programmes.

10.   McGovern also said more pharmaceutical colleges should start offering year-round courses that would allow students to get their degrees in three years instead of the standard six.