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Message: [QUOTE="billsin01, post: 1278287, member: 837"] This is at the very least equally amusing as the posts from the 'he should have stayed' crowd. First of all, just so we're clear, Jeremi Grant and any other SU athlete, for that matter, is never going to an 8:30 a.m. class. Whether or not they are going to class at all is debatable but, they are definitely not going to 8:30 a.m. classes. Secondly, no one is 'walking away' from anything. What you are trying to do is make a smart decision about your career. So the simple analogy is this -- if you're starting a career after college and you have a chance at an unpaid or low-paid internship at a big, well-established company and you have an offer from a smaller company doing essentially the same thing but as a full-time employee, albeit for far less starting salary than you might potentially get after the internship, what do you do? That's a very real example. Do you take an unpaid internship with the Washington Post and hope those connections serve you well or do you start working at the Annapolis Capital and hope someone notices your writing while you're also getting paid and gaining experience? It's a really tough answer. For a kid like Grant, the question isn't walking away from 'millions' of dollars, it's making the right decision between devloping and getting paid. I hope very much that it works out well for him and I wish him no ill will, but it's still hard for me to believe that he couldn't have been drafted much higher and probably gotten a phenomenal second contract (where the real money is) by working hard over the summer and coming back to college for a year. And, lastly, athletes 'walk away' from tens of millions of dollars ALL THE TIME. Granted, they are already being paid, but Max Scherzer 'walked away' from 6/$144M. Why? Because there's a pretty good chance he ends up with more (which he did ... a lot more). Furthermore, the worst things athletes do for themselves, at times, is sign extensions and contracts for 'long-term insurance' -- essentially what you are suggesting Grant do (forgo any potential future value for the first 7-figure deal that potentially comes up). Longoria and Moore on the Rays, for example, are on absolutely atrocious deals for each of them. Are they going to be fine? Sure, but they passed up probably close to $100M each with the deals they signed. Longoria will never make $20M during the length of his contract (which, it should be pointed out, is also in Tampa which just got even sadder with the departures of Maddon, Zobrist, Friedman, Myers, etc.). That is insane. Anyway, point is, if you want to argue Grant made the right decision, there are points to be made. But suggesting that returning to school is absurd simply b/c there is $850K/year on the table for two years is asinine. [/QUOTE]

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