College isn't for everyone. New option for 1 & dones.
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[/QUOTE]Glad I've never heard of any kids ending up broke after their playing days. That would be horrible.[/QUOTE]
As if years spent playing college is a guarantee of being financially responsible.
Like Jason Caffey- 4 years at Alabama, 8 years in the NBA, bankrupt. Or Derrick Coleman. 4 years at Syracuse (and eventually graduated), 15 years in the NBA, and broke. Or Rumeal Robinson, who was an incredible success story- tough background, academically ineligible, graduates from Michigan, makes the NBA- until he wasn't a success story, because he started spending money like a lunatic, eventually scamming almost everyone he knew. Or Scottie Pippen. Or Latrell Sprewell. Or Dennis Rodman. Or Vin Baker.
The best thing the NBA can do is try to educate its players about how easy it is for them to blow through their money, be that money from 1 rookie level contract, or a huge fortune accumulated over a long career. To try to act like you're saving players from themselves by forcing them to play a year in college is self-serving BS.
As if years spent playing college is a guarantee of being financially responsible.
Like Jason Caffey- 4 years at Alabama, 8 years in the NBA, bankrupt. Or Derrick Coleman. 4 years at Syracuse (and eventually graduated), 15 years in the NBA, and broke. Or Rumeal Robinson, who was an incredible success story- tough background, academically ineligible, graduates from Michigan, makes the NBA- until he wasn't a success story, because he started spending money like a lunatic, eventually scamming almost everyone he knew. Or Scottie Pippen. Or Latrell Sprewell. Or Dennis Rodman. Or Vin Baker.
The best thing the NBA can do is try to educate its players about how easy it is for them to blow through their money, be that money from 1 rookie level contract, or a huge fortune accumulated over a long career. To try to act like you're saving players from themselves by forcing them to play a year in college is self-serving BS.
Glad I've never heard of any kids ending up broke after their playing days. That would be horrible.[/QUOTE]
As if years spent playing college is a guarantee of being financially responsible.
Like Jason Caffey- 4 years at Alabama, 8 years in the NBA, bankrupt. Or Derrick Coleman. 4 years at Syracuse (and eventually graduated), 15 years in the NBA, and broke. Or Rumeal Robinson, who was an incredible success story- tough background, academically ineligible, graduates from Michigan, makes the NBA- until he wasn't a success story, because he started spending money like a lunatic, eventually scamming almost everyone he knew. Or Scottie Pippen. Or Latrell Sprewell. Or Dennis Rodman. Or Vin Baker.
The best thing the NBA can do is try to educate its players about how easy it is for them to blow through their money, be that money from 1 rookie level contract, or a huge fortune accumulated over a long career. To try to act like you're saving players from themselves by forcing them to play a year in college is self-serving BS.[/QUOTE]
Sarcasm is not your strong suit is it?
As if years spent playing college is a guarantee of being financially responsible.
Like Jason Caffey- 4 years at Alabama, 8 years in the NBA, bankrupt. Or Derrick Coleman. 4 years at Syracuse (and eventually graduated), 15 years in the NBA, and broke. Or Rumeal Robinson, who was an incredible success story- tough background, academically ineligible, graduates from Michigan, makes the NBA- until he wasn't a success story, because he started spending money like a lunatic, eventually scamming almost everyone he knew. Or Scottie Pippen. Or Latrell Sprewell. Or Dennis Rodman. Or Vin Baker.
The best thing the NBA can do is try to educate its players about how easy it is for them to blow through their money, be that money from 1 rookie level contract, or a huge fortune accumulated over a long career. To try to act like you're saving players from themselves by forcing them to play a year in college is self-serving BS.[/QUOTE]
Sarcasm is not your strong suit is it?
It is pretty easy, fill out a college application...millions of people have done it.
Someone offers you $250K a year salary to do what you love doing, you really passing that up to go to college for a year or 2?
Of course there will be cases that it doesn't work out, but guess what - Lenny Cooke can go back and get a degree if he wants to. So it's not free, so he has to pay like the rest of us...so what, he's made more than a lot of people would in their first 10-20 years of working.
Tyron Lue had a marginal career and he's basically the head coach of the Cavs.
We can argue semantics all day long, but to think that most guys wouldn't take a hard look at this is foolish.
Are you effing kidding me? Like this is an isolated problem with pro athletes...maybe you haven't seen stats on number of people living paycheck to paycheck, or who filed bankruptcy, or have little to no savings - college isn't going to fix that.
Why is reading comprehension and following a thread so hard. My sarcastic (since you obviously missed that part) response was in reply to one that said that kids who do this and have marginal careers in NBA or overseas are set for life. They aren't.
You are correct, a large part of the population live paycheck to paycheck. Happy now.
As if years spent playing college is a guarantee of being financially responsible.
Like Jason Caffey- 4 years at Alabama, 8 years in the NBA, bankrupt. Or Derrick Coleman. 4 years at Syracuse (and eventually graduated), 15 years in the NBA, and broke. Or Rumeal Robinson, who was an incredible success story- tough background, academically ineligible, graduates from Michigan, makes the NBA- until he wasn't a success story, because he started spending money like a lunatic, eventually scamming almost everyone he knew. Or Scottie Pippen. Or Latrell Sprewell. Or Dennis Rodman. Or Vin Baker.
The best thing the NBA can do is try to educate its players about how easy it is for them to blow through their money, be that money from 1 rookie level contract, or a huge fortune accumulated over a long career. To try to act like you're saving players from themselves by forcing them to play a year in college is self-serving BS.[/QUOTE]
Sarcasm is not your strong suit is it?[/QUOTE]
Apparently, it's not yours.
We're discussing kids skipping college to play minor league basketball for hundreds of thousands of dollars. Someone mentions that players who do this will have options if they don't pan out in the pros. You make your sarcastic response, which seems to imply that they won't, and you tie that into the numerous cases of athletes going broke.
I don't see how players taking this route would make them any more liable to go broke than guys who play in college. It's probably true that players who receive more education (real education, and not just basket-weaving 101, or no-show AFAM courses) are more likely to be financially responsible, but I also think it's true that players who come from a more solid middle-class background to begin with are more likely to value education, and that type of background might be a bigger factor than how many years (if any) they spend in college.
Lenny Cooke went undrafted and never made an NBA roster. Like you said these guys love basketball, not school. Basketball is their genius as Cal so beautifully put it. If these guys have worked their whole life to make the dream a reality why gamble it for the quick buck? What I've said the whole time stands true. While this is an attractive offer it will never gain traction as a viable option for top notch high school talent. The risks are too great.
You are the one not comprehending, I'm saying it's true they aren't set for life and burn through money...MY point was that's not an issue just with pro athletes, and that a year or so in college is not guaranteed to fix that. Plenty of people go broke and have undergrads, MBA's, doctorate degrees, etc.
No I completely understand that and agree. But my initial response was to someone who said all these kids who skip college would be. To make that assumption like the one poster did is asinine.
They would for exactly the reason you say they won't. If they are the only source to watch , that means nobody else offers a competitive product....it's called cornering the market.
I agree with your premise but, if this Las Vegas Dealers team works out and other investors start similar teams then we could have at some point most top 50 prospects (if not most top 100) wanting to go ahead and begin earning a living at basketball and bypassing college. I don't think it would ruin the college game but, it would certainly change the game until coaches and teams adjusted.
One thing I haven't seen mentioned is that if, and it's HUGE if, this thing looks like it will be successful then the NBA will swoop and devour it before it can grow.
If a majority of the top 50 kids were doing this the NBA would adapt. Probably let kids go straight out of HS but require a year of NBDL or such so they could control the game.
If a majority of the top 50 kids were doing this the NBA would adapt. Probably let kids go straight out of HS but require a year of NBDL or such so they could control the game.
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