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Dang. That’s pure and simple BS.
(Self edited to meet RCB anti-profanity standards.)
Frankly, I don’t care how talented he is, jerking people around like that is just plain wrong and demonstrates a very bad attitude IMO. Don’t need players who think like that on our team — or their parents who think such behavior is ok hanging around the program.
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Now it turns out that the selfish kid was stringing teams along. What a piece of garbage.
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"When I was a freshman, I remember Coach Naismith telling us how important it was to play good defense." - Mitch Lightfoot
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It's all about the NBA, and college is just the mandatory speed bump on that path. The shoe contracts, money under the table, etc. starts at a young age, and is part of the bigger plan of getting paid to play ball. If the system makes them go to college, they're not foregoing the real system of BB, which pays them and gets them ready for pros as quickly as possible.
Why would we ever think a guy like RJ and his dad would place the value of a year in college, playing for "free", having to go to class and having the NCAA watchdogs hanging over your every move, above the semi-pro system he's been in for years. He used it all, including the colleges and coaches, as a hype machine for his own benefit. And he played it very well.
That's a real peak behind the curtain, and it explains a lot about what we're hearing from the Adidas and Nike trials.
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I have no complaints or issues with him choosing to play professionally overseas for a year. That’s not the issue.
He and his family need to be group sued by KU, TT and Memphis for the money spent on recruiting him after he had already signed his contract, and for the value, however determined, of the opportunity costs to those programs (time, energy, recruits passed on in anticipation of getting him, etc.).
They are grifters, and the last I checked grifters get prosecuted when they are caught.
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Ok, I must be in a particularly forgiving mood because I see ONE[/b] reasonable excuse that might make this ok:
None of us have read his contract, and it IS possible that the pro contract had some kind of "out clause" and that he hadn't committed 100% to the NZ team (i.e. his contract was for rights to him this season IF he went pro, or something similar).
So I'm 99% in agreement that he's a grifter and should be labeled as such. Nevertheless I'm 1% open to the idea that there's more to the story.
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NotOstertag wrote: I'd love to see that HE, but I'm not holding my breath.
HE: Me neither!
None of us have read his contract, and it IS possible that the pro contract had some kind of "out clause" and that he hadn't committed 100% to the NZ team (i.e. his contract was for rights to him this season IF he went pro, or something similar).
HE: I’m 99% sure that as far as the NCAA is concerned once he signed that contract he was no longer eligible to play college ball.
I could be wrong now...
But I don’t think so!
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NotOstertag wrote: I'd love to see that HE, but I'm not holding my breath.
HE: Me neither!
None of us have read his contract, and it IS possible that the pro contract had some kind of "out clause" and that he hadn't committed 100% to the NZ team (i.e. his contract was for rights to him this season IF he went pro, or something similar).
HE: I’m 99% sure that as far as the NCAA is concerned once he signed that contract he was no longer eligible to play college ball.
I could be wrong now...
But I don’t think so!
- “It’s a Jungle Out There”, Randy Newman
"Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime." - Mark Twain "Innocents Abroad"
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