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[QUOTE="OttoinGrotto, post: 1605599, member: 297"]
I'm not missing any point. I'm saying there are probably teams that like him. The board is getting hung up on where he does or doesn't get picked. I'm hung up on the fact that he's spent 4 years here, already suffered a major injury in his career, and has a choice between making money playing football next year or not making money playing football next year.

Fans (I'm not necessarily lumping you in to the following statement) are so two faced about this. We love to talk about how unprepared a guy is for the next level, while trying to skirt around the reality of how much it hurts our team if they leave. That's what we're really worried about in most cases, but we cover it up with semi-rational explanations about why they should stay so we can ignore our own self-interest. We also sweep under the rug how dangerous football is and how short these guys careers are and pretend that if somehow a guy stays in college as long as possible that actually prolongs his career, when the right way to look at it is that the body probably only has a finite number of years in the sport whether the player is getting paid or not. If people want to make the "life beyond football" argument that's fine - in this case we're talking about a guy that spent 4 years here that's got to be knocking on the door of graduation at worst, so he's very likely fulfilled his academic commitment and set himself up for a career outside of football as well as any other student.

It is always a right decision for an athlete to get paid. The NCAA has chosen for it to be that way.
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