Right, but you can't support your family with what UK spends on you. Yes, he will have to live extremely frugally, as should many kids his age. I'm sure he didn't go because "ZOMG $20,000!? I'm rich!" but more "I've got a finite time where I'll be considered for pro basketball. Best to jump in now, establish myself, and hope for that real contract before it's too late." And yes, after senior year can be far too late.
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Right, but you can't support your family with what UK spends on you. Yes, he will have to live extremely frugally, as should many kids his age. I'm sure he didn't go because "ZOMG $20,000!? I'm rich!" but more "I've got a finite time where I'll be considered for pro basketball. Best to jump in now, establish myself, and hope for that real contract before it's too late." And yes, after senior year can be far too late.
1 more year of competing for time with Skal, Lee, Humphries, and Wynyard, with analysts and message board gurus repeating "Dakari just hasn't panned out" over and over? And this helps him how?
I just disagree with you that he made the right decision.
He won't be supporting anyone but himself, and barely, on $25K.
And he could have been one more year closer to having a degree to fall back on.
Correct, and I wouldn't expect him to. The idea is to get started now so the second, real money contract comes along quicker. Yes, you can debate whether or not that's the correct path, but the logic is sound enough. He'd probably go through the same thing after his senior year, but be two years older and not as enticing as a prospect to NBA owners.
He can return to get his degree, at any time, for free. He only has tiny, tiny window to play pro basketball.
Get ready to go ballistic, I just lay it down in another post. Should we call 911 for you?
Get ready to go ballistic, I just lay it down in another post. Should we call 911 for you?
I remain unaffected. Sorry. If "lay it down" means "he could be one year closer to a degree" that he could get at any time, I won't be going ballistic.
Fun fact: many adults obtain their college degree after the traditional four year window, and it still counts just as much as REAL college degree!!! WOWSERS
I'd have to debate kids can come back to school for free...if people know for fact that a scholarship fund is set aside, then I'll give way to that knowledge. But I'm skeptical that if Dakari wanted to come back to UK today..he'd have all his classes, books, housing and food paid for free. That is a bunch of $$$ to fund even 1 kid per year.
That proposition only works if you actually receive a rookie contract... he could get the deal he got at any time.
http://coachingsearch.com/article?a...ing-for-NBA-can-return-later-to-finish-degree
http://www.coachcal.com/34523/2015/04/uks-nba-draft-decisions-press-conference/
Quote from the above press conference on CoachCal.com: "They also know if they chose – I’m hoping they all stay – if they chose to leave, their scholarship is here waiting on them when they chose to come back" - Calipari
Yes, except two years later when he's seen more as a finished product than a prospect. That's a huge difference.
We're just talking past each other at this point...
It's clearly a moot point now.
Hopefully it works out for him.
Hate it for him, I thought I read somewhere early on that he was doing good in the pro summer camps. He played really well 2 years ago in our final four run, but never really done anything to show improvement last season and really seemed to regress, but I am sure he got caught up in the excitement and fervor of most of the guys declaring for NBA draft. Once in a while you are going to have one that just doesn't make it, maybe he will eventually but I am in the camp that another season at UK certainly would have not have hurt him and probably would have helped him.
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