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[QUOTE="moqui, post: 2134065, member: 214"]
College basketball players of Lydon's skill level are majoring in basketball.  The entire purpose of playing college ball is to land a professional contract as soon as possible.  But there is one big aspect that differentiates a basketball major from, say, a computer science major.  The computer science major can earn off his skillset for the rest of his life but a basketball player has a very small window in which to earn.  Most of them will be done by the time they are 30; some of them will last 10 years, 15 at the outside.  So every year they play in college for free is stealing a year off of that short earnings life.  That is why it is important to get out as soon as possible.  It is even more important for the guys who are not going to be superstars.  A solid player who doesn't make the NBA can still earn 6 figure salaries for a decade or so.  A guy like Lydon, even if he never plays a minute in the NBA, can travel the world and build an excellent nest egg by the time he is in his mid 30s.  But that window closes so quickly that you have to get through it as fast as you can.
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