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Message: [QUOTE="AlpharettaCuse, post: 1071810, member: 1466"] Absolutely wrong. Did Trevor Cooney have this choice? CJ Fair? Tyler Ennis? Jerami Grant? Were they facing drug dealing/jail time/death if they didn't play college basketball? Cooney probably has almost zero shot to play in the NBA. If anything, college basketball provides an opportunity to get these kids on the right path. Colleges don't owe these kids money. These kids have a tremendous opportunity in front of them in college, which is why they still take it, knowing they won't get paid and 99% of them will never play in the NBA. Nobody was willing to guarantee CJ Fair a contract to play in the NBA the last 3 years, which is why he's still playing college ball. CJ could have left school after his junior year like Paul Harris and Eric Devendorf did. He had options and wasn't stuck at Syracuse. Syracuse was just his best option. [/QUOTE]