Originally Posted by
Kedsy
If someone came to you after your freshman year of college and said, "I will pay you a million dollars a year for three years if you leave school right now. After that, maybe I'll employ you further, or if I don't you can go back to school, try to get another job, or sit at home and count your money." Would you say yes? I'm pretty sure I would have said yes, and pretty sure practically every poster on this board would would have said yes.
So it's not "bad enough," it's not that "the Duke experience which so many of us treasured is no longer what it is cracked up to be," it's not that a player can somehow learn more at Duke about their chosen profession then they can on the job (with some of the best teachers in the world). It's basically, the opportunity is out there in front of these kids and they've chosen to grab it. And we have no right to judge them harshly for doing so.
Yup. This sums it up pretty well. I'm pretty sure those who hate players leaving early are also the same folks who would jump at a raise in their current job. Only instead of a $10K raise, you're getting a $2M raise (unless you played at Zona. Then it's only a $1.9M raise).
More power to Duval. With Jones coming in, he made the right move.
Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfils the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things. - Winston Churchill
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