Carson Beck said the quiet part out loud. He does not go to class.
The starting quarterback for the Miami Hurricanes is not at all worried about academics.
Although this kind of arrangement is fairly common in college football, especially in the modern era of NIL and the transfer portal, you’re not supposed to ruin the worst kept secret in sports. Keep quiet!
Carson Beck is 23 years old.
Beck is currently making more than $4 million to play for the Hurricanes. He is getting paid one of the largest salaries in college football for what equates to, essentially, 12 months of work.
The former University of Georgia signal-caller enrolled at the University of Miami around this time last year. It took him a few months to get back on the field while he recovered from a torn UCL, but he was good to go by May. And then his focus shifted toward the fall.
Carson Beck led the Canes on an impressive run to the College Football Playoff National Championship as the last team to make the field of 12. The final game of his career will be played on Monday night.
With that timeline in mind, Beck will spend exactly 374 days in Coral Gables. He committed to Miami on Jan. 10, 2025. He will play for Miami for the final time on Jan. 19, 2026.
Beck began his college football career in 2020. It is set to conclude six years later.
Class is not important.
If you are still naive to the idea that most high-profile college football athletes are not in college for the education, I don’t really know what to tell you. The late, great Cardale Jones said it best.
“Why should we have to go to class if we came here to play FOOTBALL, we ain’t come to play SCHOOL, classes are POINTLESS”
Carson Beck may not subscribe to that exact line of thinking, per say, but he is on board with the whole no class thing. He has not attended a real class in at least two years.
The 23-year-old sixth-year senior graduated from the University of Georgia in 2023. No matter how much help he might have received with his coursework, that is impressive.
However, that was two years ago.
Beck has played two full seasons of college football as a graduate student. That does not require him to take the same academic course load as he did when he was an undergrad.
When asked about his current class schedule prior to the national title game, Beck said the quiet part out loud. There isn’t one.
College football in 2026 👇
— The Next Round (@NextRoundLive) January 17, 2026
Reporter: "Did you have class yesterday"
Carson Beck: "No class. I graduated two years ago."#GoCanes #NationalChampionship #CFBPlayoff pic.twitter.com/vtTSB4Ljvi
GASP! Clutch your pearls!
Although this is not new information, the NCAA would likely prefer him to keep his mouth shut. The governing body of collegiate athletics does not want its athletes to be classified as employees. The whole “college” part of college football is a big part of that equation. But this kind of arrangement isn’t new.
Matt Leinart returned to USC for a ninth semester in 2005 and took only one credit — Ballroom Dancing. Many other Trojan quarterbacks have since followed suit, like Matt Barkley.
Carson Beck presumably took a similar course-load during his final semester at Miami. Something that didn’t matter, just to get eligibility. Class? No thanks.