. >> you work with a lot of athletes including people like antoine walker, who had $108 million that he lost and went into bankruptcy on these issues. how do you possibly tell someone to start over after a huge whip saw like that. >> the antoine situation, it's about the educational perspective. we brought bart and antoine on board and be involved with the program so as bart indicated, we could go out, educate individuals at an early age. you know, antoine had a scenario where people can relate to where he came from being this all-star high school player and then going to college, but it's all about having a solid foundation and getting that early out of the gate so you can make smart decisions and have good discipline in place when these things come at you. these careers are very short-lived and these individuals are making decisions at very young ages and the sooner they can get information that provides them to be a lot smarter about their finances is all about why we created this program with morgan stanley global support system. >> it's probably the same thing for other individua

antoine walker, you know, he's had a very public situation with finances, he goes out and explains howbecause you can look up, and it's just gone. maria: exactly. >> how'd it go so fast? >> i think he hit the nail on the head, but it's literacy. having people understand finance. i teach a course to eighth graders on finance, and that's the point that we're trying to get across. don't be afraid of money, understand money. but with the nfl, because we deal with a lot of athletes in my business, the nfl, the average career three years. take-home salary is $240,000 per year. although these people may be spending money like they're multimillionaires, a lot of them aren't. >> they don't understand that money has to stretch out. it's funny, because when they get that first check, i turned it over, thought it was another one -- [laughter] this is it? maria: what are the big mistakes, drew, that people snake. >> a lot of these guys, unfortunately, don't save. they think that their careers are going to last forever. every given sunday is a real thing. we saw examples last week where would have t