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Former Arizona recruit Brandon Jennings has opted to play professionally in Europe. What do you think about his decision? Is it the right one? Will it end up hurting his NBA dreams? Share your thoughts right here.
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I think he is an ####, and I hope he blows his knee. He'll flame out like all of the other guys that can play but can't make change for a dollar. I hope you fail, and get out of the news...
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This kid is all about getting paid from the jump and had no intentions being a full time student athlete. Why are his parents not trying to help him. Poor parenting right there....How do not encourage him to at least look at community college....B. Euro needs an education to fall back on. Why did he put on a show as if he was going to college when he knew failed the SAT the first two times......Its a shame that kids cant meet the basic requirement to get into college. When is the NBA gonna get smart and have the same requirement as the NFL.... you can come out after your Jr year. So if kids wanna jump across to euro........make them wait three years from their high school class ended....Not every kid is Kobe KG Greg Oden or B Easy......sad day for Arizona Basketball...
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Kind of reminds me of Dexter Manley, who somehow got through four years of college without learning to read and write.He played for the Redskins and the Buccaneers and did not learn to read and write until he went to prison on drug charges.I heard sometime back that he was attendin law school somewhere after turning his life around,Good luck to you Dexter!
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Will this kid even be a story next year at this time? Does everyone have to go to college? Everyone should have the "opportunity" to go to college. If you don't take advantage of that opportunity, your loss. He can go back to college later in life, but then it will be on his dime. No right or wrong answer here, just choices.
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Jennings would be on near permanent academic probation under Lute. Jennings has taken the UofA entrance examination twice now and failed it both times. The entrance exam for the UofA is designed to allow in students that will be C students or better. Jennings failing this exam twice now shows that he wouldn't even be a C student and under Lute, if you want to play, you better be pulling Cs and better or you sit. Jennings realizes that he isn't going to be able to be a C student and thus is running for Europe so he can try to get in the NBA in a year or two from playing there instead of getting little to no play time at Arizona because he won't be able to handle Arizona academically.
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Realist502, you are an ####. To hope someone gets hurt for making a decision you disagree with... So the kid doesn't qualify per NCAA rules. He may still qualify to get into a college. He is simply making a decision - he could go to JC, play and go to school or he could go to Europe and get paid. What difference does it make to you? We all know it's another 1 (maybe 2) and done anyway.
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This may begin a new trend for black college players, that now they aren't going to school for the education anyway. Basketball is alive and well overseas and will give him the opportunity to mature. These kids know as soon as they step foot on these campuses that they don't have the academic background to make it, they are there for the hoop dream. Why not got to Europe where they have youngsters as young as 16 and 17 playing pro ball, but no one says anything about that. These colleges have been getting rich off these young black youth for years.
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what else is this kid supposed to do? they won't let him play in the NBA. if my son gets offerred hundeds of thousands of dollars right after high school, i'm telling him to take it. other sports such as tennis and golf allow 18 year olds to play, so why not basketball. these one and out kids don't want to go to college and don't put any effort into it. most lottery picks stop going to class after the basketball season anyway.
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Not everyone can go to college, and in fact most people do not graduate from college. So to required kids to go to college for 1 year is ridiculous and should be illegal. College should be for students who go with the intention of graduating. If they are there just to play a sport inorder to go pro then they do not belong. The NCAA is just using athletes in basketball and football to fund the other nonprofitable sports that kids who actually plan on graduating play. Most of the black players playing major college basketball and football are probably the first in their families to even attend college so to expect them to be prepared for what they are facing is naive. Most of these young men would have no shot at attending these schools like Michigan, Ohio State, USC, UCLA or any other BCS school without being athletes. There are many positive success stories of kids who go on achieve great things because of thes opportunities, but the vast majoritiy do not. Look at JC Watts, I doubt that he would have been accepted to OU without being a football star, but look at him now. He served in Congress and is now making millions in the telecommunications business. He was never an NFL star, but he used his college days to make a better life for himself and his family. The opportunity exists for these young men to achieve if they have the intelligent to do so. Some do and some do not. I am glad that they are atleast given an opportunity to succeed or fail. Isn't that what we all want? An opportunity to succeed or fail on our own merits. Some people can not pass the entrance exam and they should not be allowed entrance PERIOD. Those students are taking a spot that should go to someone qualified. I am not a proponent of allowing admission to any unqualified applicant, but those that have been historically denied opportunities based on sex, religion or race should be given every chance if they met the minimum requirements for entry.
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to realist first of all REST WHERE THE WORMS AND THE WEAK BE HATER
for the rest of you why go to college for 1 year if your gonna come out regardless
me who played overseas for 2 years loved it and still in touch with fellow teammates and i went to school why get pimped by ncaa there makeing money off you and you dont see a damn thing your struggling just to buy books and surviveing and besides more competion in europe then here
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This is in response to realist502's comment.
You are an ####. How can you wish these things on a 18 year old kid that is opting not to go to college to probably make a million dollars overseas. He is putting himself in a position to help his family. The NCAA does not pay these kids eventhough they make a ton of money off of them. Brandon Jennings will be a star in the NBA in a few years. Get your act together!!!!!!!
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Dumb negro couldn't pass the college entrance exam! What you couldn't have kid n play take the test for ya?
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Delimma Decision: Either play basketball for 1 year in college for the value of an education you won't use & appreciate (what does 1 year of college classes get in the job market?) OR play for 1 year in a professional league for hundreds of thousands of $$$- legally. Get the passport ready!
Will it hurt NBA dreams? No. NBA teams have more scouts in more countries than ever before. The talent level over seas is significantly higher, as evidenced by prior olympic & world games victories & the # of foreign players chosen in the NBA draft.
Plus, he gets to travel Europe at 18-19...cool!
It will probably make hime MORE NBA ready. For a 5 star athlete like BJ, talent isn't so much the issue as it is being ready to live the NBA lifestyle. This year in Europe will allow him to grow as a person & acclimate to the lfestyle changes to come. He'll be more ready than his college contemporaries.
This may be the wisest decision made by an amateur athlete concerning his professionalism that I have seen. Go ahead BJ!
Most people are mad b/c it lessens the talent pool for the NCAA & the NCAA is mad b/c this is going to hurt its $$$ (precedent: many more will follow, unless college sports changes)- Good! Its a rigged system & needs to be challenged.
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 hey furhman go and molest your sister
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 yes ike forty been trying to tell these kids for years more talent overseas
then playing against other athletes who are going to play one year anyway brandons game will be alot better and will be mentally ready for N.B.A
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What r u guys on Mota...
Kobe Bryant, Lebron James, Kevin Garnett...went from High School to NBA..no Problema...
in baseball...you have team signing 16 year old players who can't speak or write English....from Cuba, Dominican Republic other Latin American countries...
n Straight from High School...
one year after high school ....the dumbest idea ever....one year of college....what is that going to do..lol....you need four to graduate..at least if you go full time..it took me 8 years....hard work plus worked full time, plus had a beautiful son that looks like me.
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Anybody who says it is a dumb idea to play oversees out of high school is an ####. The point of going to college is to generate an education so you may go out into the world and obtain a job and make money. If someone has the opportunity to get a killer job with killer pay right out of high school they would have to be a fool to turn it down. /thread
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You are a short man that does not realize talent; if google offered any of us a job at 500 thousand a year would any of us go to our state colleges? Ya right.....Capitalism is our structure of education and what we base our success in as American...God Bless America...Love it or leave it.....
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How about this. Stop handing out athletic scholarhips and make it academics only? Need intelligent people and folks of good social character as opposed to the thugs that are out there now in the NBA and NFL. Sick of hearing about how they feel mistreated and abused when a college offers a free ride and asks only that the person make a passing grade. How many people have been left w/o a college education because it was decided that the University needed a BB player more than a student who was committed to his/her education?
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