LSU football star has a side business that nets him thousands a day

By foxsports
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The college football season is just about a month away, and one team that is expected to make some major noise is LSU. Buoyed by stars Leonard Fournette, Jamal Adams, Tre'Davious White and Malachi Dupri (among many others), the Tigers have stars all over the field and more than enough talent to win the SEC.

Still, there might be no bigger star (outside maybe Fournette) than defensive end Lewis Neal. He is a workout warrior who finished with a team-high eight sacks last year, but also, as we learned Friday, has a unique range of interests off the field as well.

What kind of interests, you ask? Well, how about day-trading. Yes ... day-trading.

CampusSports.net had the fascinating details a few months back, on a fascinating individual who trades on the Foreign Market, where there's upwards of $4 trillion per day turnover (compared to "only" $50 million per day on the New York Stock Exchange).

Yes, the article is a few months old, but definitely worth digging into. 

Whoa. Who said college football players don't care about education? It sounds like Neal is giving himself more of a personal, real-world education than anything that's happening in the classroom at LSU.

From there, Neal began to explain how he got into the day-trading routine. According to the article, he says he's always had an entrepreneurial mindset and always wanted to have control of his income, rather than being beholden to someone else.

Though he loves football, he simply doesn't want to depend on anyone else for money, even if he does have a long and prosperous NFL career.

Over time, Neal --- now a fifth-year senior --- seems to have gotten the knack of day trading. He says he started in high school but got serious during his sophomore year at LSU. Now, three years later, he has it down pat and said he has made upwards of $6,000 in one day.

It also raises one simple question: In addition to being a full-time studentand a football player in one of the biggest programs in the country, how does he find time to balance a side-business like day-trading with everything else?

According to Neal, it's simple.

It all sounds so simple, but also raised another, equally simple question in my head: What the heck am I doing with my life?