HS Baseball Phenom leaves after Sophomore year... Thoughts

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Originally Posted by toefer

True. But college will always be around. If he fails at baseball, what's stopping him from going to college when he's 25, or 45? Nothing really.

The reason I hate college players being forced to go to college is that most of the ones you see coming out of college probably couldn't really cut in in college anyway. I remember when Carmelo Anthony was at SU, after his freshman year there was a bit of a debate about whether he'd stay or go to the NBA. The local news circulating around campus (what I heard from friends) was that he was definitely leaving, because he wasn't even passing his classes. There'd be no way he could make it through 3 more years of school, without a lot of help (and by help, I mean giving him passing grades).

But he's a great basketball player, so I figure why not just let him go do what he's good at in life.

College is what you make of it. You can't force someone to go to class and expect them to get smarter. You have to want to learn, and study, and learn some more. So if these players don't care about being in college, putting them through 1 year or 4 years of school isn't going to make them any smarter. Might as well let them go to the NBA if they want to, or set up some sort of developmental league for 18-20 year olds, so they can play around there before making bigger money at the NBA level.

well if you blew all your money your back having to pay for college instead of getting a free ride + the money you'd make entering later

And I think melo would fall into the best of the best players. How many players that aren't top picks don't get that shot. But might have been able to use their skills to get a degree. Thats my only grip about it it's one thing if you are a top player its another to be good enough to play college ball and get a free ride and and not be able to make ends meet playing the sport professionally or staying in the minors or d-league or making the practice squad in football.