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[QUOTE="miamicuse, post: 3745692, member: 7237"]
Reason #1, there is no reason to believe staying longer will allow you to develop to enhance your draft status, this is especially true for those borderline talents where a year 2, 3, 4 will do no more than exposing their weaknesses.  Tyler Ennis made the right move.  CJ Fair made the wrong move by staying too long.

Reason #2, many of them didn't exactly grow up with a silver spoon, they want to help their families sooner rather than later.

Reason #3, now more than ever, we have guys playing out of position.  Lydon was playing as a 5, Marek is playing as a 5, what skills are you to develop doing that for another year?

Reason #4, and this one hasn't been mentioned yet and that is obvious, for someone to say to them "college is not going anywhere, the NBA is waiting, strike while the iron is hot, if it doesn't pan out in 5 years, you will only be 25 and you can still go back to college, by then you will have a better idea what you want anyways".

Reason #5, age.  Your perspective at age 45 or 60 is different from someone at 19.  Derrick Coleman said the best time of his life were his 4 years at the cuse and he wouldn't trade it for anything.  That's him talking now.  But if you rewind the clock back to 1987 and one and done was a thing, I bet he leaves after his freshman year after a trip to a championship game.
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