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Message: [QUOTE="Zelda Zonk, post: 22358, member: 966"] My point is this: As an outsider, you're sitting there looking at superficial information, and making an assessment that the two situations are identical. That's a position of arrogance- you simply think you know more than you do. But, let's take the points you are actually discussing... Flynn owed you, the student body, and SU nothing more than he gave already. He went to Syracuse in order to advance him toward his eventual goal. He was given a year-to-year scholarship, and he played hard during those years. It's not as if he was given a 4-year scholarship and he skipped out on the remaining two years, rendering them useless. Another player used the next two years. There was no contract violated. The school, however, should have a different level of commitment, and they certainly have a different set of responsibilities. "[COLOR=#000000]Oh, and I would gladly accept two more years of education for the purpose of gaining more knowledge...would you?"[/COLOR] The answer to that— "depends." Depends on what i was doing at the time. Depends on whether or not i believed i could develop and improve myself in other ways, by other means. And the answer recognizes there is no window that closes on education. He [B]could[/B] resume those two years at [B]any[/B] point in his life. Fact is, "four years" is an arbitrary number. It's not an empirical fact that 4 prepares you any more for life or career than 3 could or 5 would. If 2 gets you your dream job and millions of dollars, and mitigates your risk of injury, you'd be a fool not to [B]consider[/B] it. Lastly, it's a common fault in the 'logic' to assume that every [B]should[/B] have the same ideals as you. I'm not sure why you feel so [I]betrayed[/I] by Flynn. He represented us well, and if you were to err on the side away from complete objectivity, i would hope you would be defending him. [/QUOTE]

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