8th grader commits to Kentucky...

[grunewar]

Originally Posted by Dan_ref

Let's assume you have a 14 year old daughter.

Playboy offers her $1M to appear in the magazine on her 18th birthday.

Pretty good offer, no? Here, use my pen to sign the contract...

Let's assume you have a 14 year old daughter.

IBM offers her $1M to leave school on her 18th birthday.

Pretty good offer, no? Here, use my pen to sign the contract...

[JugglingReferee]

Originally Posted by grunewar

Let's assume you have a 14 year old daughter.

IBM offers her $1M to leave school on her 18th birthday.

Pretty good offer, no? Here, use my pen to sign the contract...

Apples and oranges. AFAIK, NCAA D1 schools don't pay their athletes to play. Sure, the athletes get a free education, but IBM would do that too with employee educational programs. I also don't think that IBM will offer $1M to a 14 year old. They would likely say "call us in 4 years", or "keep in contact with us every 6 months". Or, they would have the 14-year old work for them immediately, and have private tutoring for her HS diploma.

[Scrapper1]

Originally Posted by JugglingReferee

Apples and oranges. AFAIK, NCAA D1 schools don't pay their athletes to play.

I might be wrong, but I think you're missing grunewar's point. He's only responding to Dan_ref's similar point. Dan seems to say that it would be terrible parenting to allow your daughter to sign a "future" contract with Playboy. But grunwar points out that it might not be terrible parenting if the "future" contract were with a more reputable, professional company like IBM.

A D1 college scholarship seems more like the IBM (reputable) offer than the Playboy offer. I think that was grunwar's point. I'm sure Dan_ref will tell you why I'm wrong.

[JugglingReferee]

Originally Posted by Scrapper1

I might be wrong, but I think you're missing grunewar's point. He's only responding to Dan_ref's similar point. Dan seems to say that it would be terrible parenting to allow your daughter to sign a "future" contract with Playboy. But grunwar points out that it might not be terrible parenting if the "future" contract were with a more reputable, professional company like IBM.

A D1 college scholarship seems more like the IBM (reputable) offer than the Playboy offer. I think that was grunwar's point. I'm sure Dan_ref will tell you why I'm wrong.

You could be correct. I decided long ago that I wasn't reading all the posts in this thread.

It's clearly the off-season here in the forum! Some of the topics are silly.