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Message: [QUOTE="SWC75, post: 2133247, member: 289"] By my count, we've now had 16 players leave early for pro ball: [I](The spacing is intentional, to show the gap in years.)[/I] 1986: Pearl Washington, who was drafted in the 1st round, 13th overall 1991: Billy Owens, who was drafted in the 1st round, 3rd overall 2003: Carmelo Anthony, who was drafted in the 1st round, 3rd overall 2008: Donte Greene, who was drafted in the 1st round, 28th overall 2009: Jonny Flynn, who was drafted in the 1st round, 6th overall Eric Devendorf and Paul Harris who were not drafted. 2010: Wes Johnson, who was drafted in the 1st round, 4th overall 2012: Dion Waiters, who was drafted in the 1st round, 4th overall Fab Melo, who was drafted in the 1st round, 22nd overall 2013: Michael Carter-Williams, who was drafted in the 1st round, 11th overall 2014: Tyler Ennis, who was drafted in the 1st round, 18th overall Jerami Grant, who was drafted in the 2nd round, 39th overall 2015: Chris McCullough, who was drafted in the 1st round, 29th overall 2016: Malachi Richardson, who was drafted in the 1st round, 22nd overall 2017: Tyler Lydon It's hard to tell if these guys would have been better off staying, Certainly in the short term, they got a lot more money - which they may have needed. We don't know how much better they would have gotten here and how much better their draft position might have been in the next year or the one after that. What I wonder is why 13 of the 16 have been in the last 9 years. Also, you hear sometimes of guys playing for other schools who consider the NBA draft but then decide to come back. It's been along time since that happened here, (Derrick Coleman? John Wallace? If one of our players says anything to suggest he might be thinking about it, He gone. In Sunday's paper, Tyler Lydon was quoted as saying: "I'm not answering any questions about next year right now. i'm just going to talk with my family and see what's best." When i read that, Woody Guthrie's voice started playing in my mind: [MEDIA=youtube]zqiblXFlZuk[/MEDIA] [/QUOTE]

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