I'm just throwing this thought out there as I watch UNC play Maryland (Note: if UNC loses I will cry) WHY WOULD A COLLEGE BASKETBALL PLAYER GOOD ENOUGH TO BE DRAFTED IN THE FIRST ROUND STAY IN COLLEGE? I can't figure out who would advise anyone they cared about to stay in school and turn down the NBA calling. My cousin and I were just talking about it, and couldn't figure out a reason to stay in school.
You have a VERY finite amount of time to play basketball professionally. If you are very lucky and very talented you can stretch a career out ten good years, perhaps more. In any case a first round draft pick is guaranteed a few million dollars regardless of anything else. You don't have to step foot on the hardwood and you're a millionaire. If you wait a year you take away one of those precious years in which you'll be responsible for earning a living for yourself and family for the rest of your life. That year you stay at school is you taking a couple million dollars and setting them on fire.
It's a whole bunch easier to get your college degree when you're forty vs. playing in the NBA when you're forty. What I'm trying to say is you can always go back to school, the NBA will never call again.
Being in college is a great time, not denying that, but you know what else is a good time? BEING A 20 YEAR-OLD MILLIONAIRE. I think you can forgo the formative years of college to just flat-out CAKE UP (getting rich for the over 30 crowd). I'm fairly certain it makes more sense to become a millionaire than take Sociology 101 and American History 140, or whatever joke classes you prefer.
Who better to teach you skills than an NBA coaching staff comprised of the best of the best (in all cases except for the LA Clippers)? Kelvin Sampson coached Oklahoma and Indiana (Disgracing himself and others with constant recruiting scandals) and his job now is... TO SHOOT 1,000 JUMPERS A DAY WITH BRANDON JENNINGS. That's the kind of help you get in the NBA, I doubt there's a college team that can match the personal attention and quality of help that will be lavished to you upon entering the NBA.
I can't honestly believe you can look someone in the eye that's a first rounder and tell them to stay in school if you care about their well-being at all. There are examples of this failing, like Joe Forte. Joe Forte was a freshman phenom to North Carolina who jumped ship into the NBA after one year and was drafted in the second round by the Celtics and was out of the NBA two years later. The problem with Joe Forte however was not his decision, but the fact he was a 6' 1" shooting guard who can't possibly guard players at that position in the NBA. It was lack of ability, not experience that doomed Forte. There are other examples if someone feels like picking holes at this, but all I'm saying is that if you have the talent and guarantee of being a first rounder, you fucking do it.
Open for debate from naysayers
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