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Message: [QUOTE="Cheriehoop, post: 1938914, member: 127"] Guess I'm a neanderthal when it comes to my viewpoint on the subject, I think Simmons is every bit the hypocrite he accuses everyone else of. His complaint is that he didn't earn money a year earlier. Why stop there? He came to the US only to get better competition and publicity. Doubt he traveled here from Australia to go to high school for an education either. He had options to get paid and not to use the US college educational system to achieve his goals. He could have stayed in Australia and played for their National Basketball League there while getting paid (like fellow Aussies Dante Exum & Joe Ingels etc) or he could have played anywhere overseas or even in the D-League. He didn’t want to. Why didn’t he take any of those options but instead decide to come to the US fully knowing the rules? No one forced him to take the path he did, he could have skipped college, made money, made a name for himself in Australia or in another country and sold his own t-shirts. If he was good enough the NBA would have come calling. Thon Maker who came from Australia, played high school in the US, then went to Canada for more high school and prep school, skipping college and declaring for the NBA draft. The college game survived without Thon Maker and LSU would have survived without him. Ben Simmons could have done the same as Maker rather than partake in what he now calls a hypocritical step to the NBA via LSU with his godfather, David Patrick (now with TCU and Jamie Dixon). Sorry but personally I’ll save my sympathy for real victims not multi-millionaires who made their own decisions to maximize the money they want to make on their initial NBA contract but are mad they didn’t make it a year earlier. He had options and he alone decided to take the path he took. I think there are many serious issues with the NCAA but his beef I wouldn’t put even in the top 50. I'm sorry if this sounds preachy. (how about the NCAA taking action on his accusations about enticements) [/QUOTE]

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