Jason Stahl is the founder and ExecutiveDirector of the College Football Players Association (CFBPA). Jason is a formerfaculty member in the Department of Organizational Leadership, Policy andDevelopment at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. At Minnesota, he alsodirected one of the largest programs for first-year student experience in thenation. It was through these twin roles that Jason met and educated hundreds ofcollege athletes over a ten-year career. In these roles, Jason took a particularinterest in the lives of the 60 or so football players who he came to know inthe classroom. Seen by the public as “big men on campus” Jason came instead tosee the more complicated reality of their lives as “student-athletes.”