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[QUOTE="MonsterGame, post: 886056, member: 1256"]
Not trying to make you feel bad, but this has zero to do with whether TE stays or goes.  It's about the money.  If it was your kid or you, it would be about the money.  I know, I know, your about to reply, that's what I was saying, TE is drafted in the first round and gets his guaranteed 3-year deal and can't cut it defensively or in some other way and is out of the league.  Has he maximized his money?  Yes, he has.  Cause there is no guarantees on whether anyone drafted in the first round makes it or not in the NBA beyond their rookie deal, and who is to say that if TE stays, the NBA cools on his abilities next year and beyond and then he doesn't even get a guaranteed rookie deal?  You take what you get when you can get it.  End of story.

Some people like to argue that Donte Greene made a mistake leaving SU when he did.  That his NBA career would have been longer had he stayed longer at SU.  I highly doubt it and possibly he might have lost money had he stayed at SU longer by being drafted lower.  Why did CJ stay last year?  Cause he found out the chances of him being a 1st rounder were slim at best. (No guaranteed dollars.)  I believe if you are good enough to play in the league, you will stick.  If you are not, then you won't.  (Fringe guys sometimes stick for awhile because they have a skill set that compliments a team that needs it.)  Moral of the story, "When the fire is hot, start cooking, otherwise you might end up getting nothing to eat."  It's all dollars and sense/cents.  Nothing else really matters.  We'd like to believe other things matter, but they don't.  (BTW, I'm sure JB advises kids in this exact same fashion.  Take the money while the NBA wants you badly, cause no one knows what next year will bring.)
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