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Originally Posted by deanwoof
for every kobe there's a leon smith. and with these high school kids, there is so much banking on them from teams, to companies and to families. you don't think for a second that kobe, tmac and garnett had some help along the way from their respective shoe companies as well as the league promoting them? i'm in the belief that anybody could fair pretty well in the league given the right opportunities. i mean, look at jermaine oneal. when he was buried on the bench, he was pretty crappy. throw him into the fire and he exploded... ok exploded was the wrong word. more like he became better than average. and now look at him again, he's pretty crappy again. my point? i didn't have one. i'm still drunk rambling and going to work will be fun right about now....
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Ok, so how is this ratio different from the ratio of guys drafted who did go to college and who are busts? Sure you get to scout them more, but taking a look at the ratio of guys who came straight out of high school and into the nba and how many made it, and then comparing it to the number of guys who went to school, and how many made it in the NBA, a higher percentage of those players make it and have careers.
Now I would also point this out. I work in computers, I never went to college for it. I see young people straight out of college all the time who went to school for computers enter the field, and it is so obvious they are inexperienced and not very good (yet) at what they do until they get their feet wet for a few years. Yet I can tell you when I started working in computers, I was better at it than a vast majority of the folks who learned their skills in school. Would it make sense for a company to say they wouldn't hire me because I didn't go to college for it? I guess you can say it is their perogative, but really it is not right. In the same vein, I can say that there are guys who come straight out of high school who are better than guys that went to school. That is a fact.
I think what it really comes down to is, a lot of people don't like seeing young men make a buttload of money at such a young age, and they are jealous. I say this is america. Live it up, and cheer for people who are making their own lives great, and not at the cost of others.