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Sports Illustrated Lauds Wisconsin Football Star (and Real Estate Student) Joe Thomas

 "There may not be a better school in America to study real estate and urban land economics than Wisconsin," says Sports Illustrated in a profile of UW football star (and real estate student) Joe Thomas.

The story, titled "Old School: While draft hype consumes NFL nation, Wisconsin's Joe Thomas is chilling in Madison, hitting the books and the brats and waiting for life to get even better" was posted April 17, 2007 on sportsillustrated.com and appears in the current issue of the printed magazine.  

The article continues: "Thomas carried a 3.5 grade point average in the undergraduate program, which is ranked second nationally by U.S. News and World Report, and even with the NFL draft looming, he has a full course load this semester: Finance 300, real estate finance, business law, real estate development. Who says a guy can't be Jonathan Ogden and Donald Trump in the same lifetime?"

Senior Lecturer Sharon McCabe, who has had Thomas in two of her classes, is quoted in the article. " 'Believe me, this is no slough-off major he's in,' she says. 'You've got to work hard to succeed. He got A's in both classes, and he never once asked for an extension on any papers or projects because of football.' "