Re: Looks like Jayron might've made a bad choice

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Feb 29, 2016, 3:26 PM

I would rather have several hundred thousand more if all I had to do was play college FB one more season with my livelihood paid for, I would dedicate that season getting stronger with adding more experience. If I had already done 3 years, and I know one more year means a bigger better pay day bc I would become a more polished player, I'm staying... Now these are my thoughts of a much older, wiser, and a way more patient man, and it's easy for me to look back and say what would have been the best for me to have done if those were my choices. But, would I have taken the earlier lesser money running off to the draft at 20 years old. I probably would have chosen the draft as a junior, and it would have been a mistake. That is why I'm for an NCAA rules change that once a college player accepts a scholarship to play college sports, pro sport teams can not allow them to enter their draft selection until after their senior year. I honestly believe that it would be the best thing for all student athletes chasing a pro sport career. Being a college student athlete at 18, 19, 20 years old, the lure of pro sport money is just to hard for young men at that age to turn down. Top HS athletes are graduating HS knowing they will only be in college for 3 years. They are no longer student athletes, they are athletes that has to use college scholarship money in order to get the college FB training before the NFL will give them a look or a chance to enter their draft. And the NFL only uses the cream of the crop, and all juniors lose their chance to ever play college FB again. Stop allowing juniors to risk their paid for college education in order to get picked over by professional FB. Only like 3% of seniors and juniors get drafted, with the most of that 3% being seniors. Stop the madness of wasting billions in cash for the NFL to only pick over 1% of the juniors that couldn't resist the lure of NFL money, and they lose their scholarship money and their choice to ever play college athletic sports again. No juniors allowed in the NFL draft, and if they do, make them pay the same as a college scholarship pays for them to finish their college degree....

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Listen, no one told him to leave early, right? He left on his own accord. But considering the average teacher will have to work a decade to make what a rookie will make in one year sitting on the sidelines? Forgive me if my small violin isn't loud enough for you. And considering an anesthesiologist doesn't make his first real check until he/she is 35 years old, your considerably rude argument also doesn't hold much weight in my opinion. Add in his/her malpractice insurance, loans for undergrad & med school and tell me who has the better gig... The athlete with the gratis bachelor's degree making $435,000 on the sidelines getting paid to "work" one day a week for 3 hours and do what he loves the rest of the week or the anesthesiologist dealing with life / death decisions 45 weeks a year.

Sorry if you missed the larger point I was trying to make... The last person that will have to worry about monetary issues is an athlete in the NFL, regardless of where they fall in the draft. And feeling sorry for someone who leaves school early to make money most of us will never see for doing what he loves? Boo hoo.

Looks like Jayron might've made a bad choice