Hoops ain't rocket science,

[Dan_ref]

[QUOTE]Originally posted by rainmaker

Well, I know I'm a little weird, but I did in fact have the chance to leave college and go into a career with the offer of immediate big money, and bigger out there in the near future; with national exposure and celebrity status. It was a career that I had been working away at, and the offer was that sort of phone call everyone always dreams of. And I turned it down. And I have never regretted it, other than those three am regrets that everyone has.

Good for you! Success is not just measured in $$$.

And then, too, there may be more kids that turn down the offer than we realize. We only hear about the kids that leave school, but there may be some of the others.

I believe once a kid gets far enough into negotiations to
turn down an offer (or maybe even just an offer of an offer)
he has forfeited his amateur standing under NCAA rules.
So maybe the reason we don't hear about kids turning down
offers to remain a student is they are no longer included in the "student athlete" column. WHen we hear a kid has
decided to not go pro it means he's decided to keep his
amateur standing and not pursue offers (in theory).
I'm sure there are lots of "under the table" discussions, so
if a kid decided to turn down one of these offers it would
never get out. Anyway, I'm be no means an expert on NCAA eligibility but I do believe it works along those lines.
But I bring it up to include the boat load of complicated
NCAA regulations into the discussion.

If there are any recruiters/agents/NCAA compliance people
out there maybe you can add more...


[Edited by Dan_ref on Oct 19th, 2002 at 09:25 AM]