- 10/Apr/2012 10:28:11 PM PDT+
College Basketball - The Decision to Stay in School or Go Pro.
Chirpstory like most started innocently. Saw a tweet from @BIGSPORTSWRITER - "The only time I'll ever give a kid a hard time for leaving early, is when he could have improved his draft stock. And even then, barely."
I followed with this tweet - "Re 1 & done @BIGSPORTSWRITER - think you're being shortsighted - not every kid is ready to enter a man's world,but U can't tell them that."
Not going to provide anymore editorial comment. I'll let the highlighted tweets shape the story. Would like you to read @marcisenberg's recent story on the subject - "The Decision to Stay in School or Go Pro:" http://bit.ly/GX61QH along with Marc's tweet on the subject:
"I've written extensively on decision to go pro/stay...I've learned u can't paint w broad strokes. Each situation is unique."
No truer statement has ever been written about the subject
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Just wrote on Kentucky, Calipari, Pitino, education, one-and-done and hypocrisy. Will sent link out soon. Woohoo! -
Get ready for a wave of one-and-done Kentucky hysteria from the hypocrites. My column http://t.co/GfVwvGMT
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Calipari, Pitino, hypocrisy, recruiting and that smell on Bourbon Street. My column http://t.co/GfVwvGMT
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And the voice of sanity among silliness is..... @greggdoyelcbs??? @greggdoyelcbs. http://t.co/AiByw20D
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There are a LOT of things wrong with college sports. Over-signing, scholarships as leases, education fraud, and at times physical abuse...
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But when I look across the spectrum of collegiate athletics, forgive me if I don't see Calipari and Kentucky as some horrible demon.
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At least John has always been up front about the fact that his job is to win games and get kids to the NBA. No bones about it...
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Give me Calipari saying "Should I convince them NOT to take Millions?" over "I'm teaching them how to be men." All day, every day.
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And trust me that I understand that concerns, Camby, Rose, etc... But if a kid is going to take money from an agent, he's going to do it.
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There's a list of coaches with black marks on their records, vacated seasons and the like...
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(Coach K is always my favorite example for this discussion) and yet none are personally excoriated like Calipari is.
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I look at Greg Oden and I think to myself, what if somebody convinced him to stay at OSU? He'd never have sniffed a check.
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And he's just one example. Do we really think Daniel Orton should have stayed at UK? Never would have had another shot at the 1st round.
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Save the Sanctity of College Sports diatribe for somebody who hasn't been in lockerrooms & seen kids pull $100 bills out of their sneakers.
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Save it for somebody that pretends a 35 team SEC is about academics.
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Save it for somebody that isn't watching the BigEast starve to death, while the Big10, Big12, ACC & PAC gorge on football programs.
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The only time I'll ever give a kid a hard time for leaving early, is when he could have improved his draft stock. And even then, barely.
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The "Teams like UK ruin college basketball" line, is the rhetoric of the naive, the faux-nostalgic, and the jealous.
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And don't even get me started on the bizarre, racist, and fatally paternalistic - "I want them in college to make them better adults."
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As if this populace of predominantly African American kids - many from lower income backgrounds - needs to be 'saved' in some way.
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I know enough 'adults' with degrees that went on to waste their lives and their money. that piece of paper didn't protect them.
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All things being equal: I like a kid's chances better with a guaranteed 3-5 million dollars in his pocket, than I do with a cap on his head.
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You know why? Because a kid that cares about getting a degree, will always be able to go back to school.
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And maybe... juuuust MAYBE - when he goes back as a 20/30-something, he'll actually KNOW what he wants to study, unlike most 18 year olds.
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So let's not root against Kentucky because of some misguided moral disposition. Root against them because it's basketball, and it's a game.
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