>>What I honestly don't get is why the top collegians rush to the NBA. What's wrong with being a BMOC? Everything is provided for you, every last thing. The pro money will still be there for you in a year or two. I hope John Wall returns to Kentucky next year to complete unfinished business.
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>I agree with you, but I think for many of these kids, it's a matter of not being particularly good students and the money making a huge difference in their lives and the lives of their families.
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>I think with basketball, you couldn't really do what I'm about to propose, but I bet you can still with baseball. It would be interesting to do a little research to see if there's any correlation between which kids sign with a major league team right out of high school and which go to college first, and the family's socio-economic status. My hypothesis is that the higher the family status a priori, the more likely to go to college first.
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>Tamar

That all may be sort of true for basketball and baseball but any football player who is a real draft prospect as a junior who isn't a Phi Beta Kappa in premed who sticks around for his senior year is getting bad advice or has found somebody will to pay for a 10 million dollar insurance policy against injury in his senior year. If your plan is to play pro ball as long as the ride lasts you need to do it when you can. Most would probably be better college students at 30 anyway.