What Would YOU Do?

[IU Hoosier41 14,465]

You are 18 years old, just completed your Senior Year of high school and you have every D1 coach around the country drooling over you. You are a 5 star recruit destined for the NBA.

You have 3 options:

1. Suit up for the Hoosiers until you have your degree REGARDLESS of draft position.
2. Play one season in College and jump to the NBA.
3. Go to China for 5 months, make $1,250,000 (damn near tax free) for your efforts in 30 games where you are given the green light to shoot and score 20-30ppg and have zero chance of getting exposed by better players.


What option would you HONESTLY choose? Defend your answer.


Link: https://sports.yahoo.com/news/will-emmanuel-mudiay-s-jump-to-china-be-the-start-of-a-trend-for-recruits-203740980-nba.html


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[sirhoosierlot 2,764]

[sirhoosierlot 2,764]

No guarantee that I'll make it to the league. Like Steve Miller said, take the money and run. 

[Dalton26 16,892]

Take the money in China then go pro. I have no desire to spend 4 yrs with Crean and there's no sense in wasting a season at a different school when I can go make money.


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[Hovadipo 56,256]

Go to Indiana for four years because I'm a HOOSIER through and through. I was raised on the TRADITION and EXCELLENCE of this program all the way back to '93. One national RUNNER UP and...well...that's it, but YEAH.

That being said, go ahead and chalk me up for a passport.

[WayneFleekHoosier 48,386]

If I was good enough to garner over 1 million overseas, then I assume I would be a near certain lottery pick.

In THAT case, I would go to IU and BE KING for a year or 2. Have the time of my life and make Amazing memories. Improve marketing potential. Have an insurance policy in case of injury and go PRO when done having an absolute blast!

[Walking Boot of Doom 18,170]

[quote name="WayneHoosier" post="75920" timestamp="1406761347"]If I was good enough to garner over 1 million overseas, then I assume I would be a near certain lottery pick.

In THAT case, I would go to IU and BE KING for a year or 2. Have the time of my life and make Amazing memories. Improve marketing potential. Have an insurance policy in case of injury and go PRO when done having an absolute blast![/quote] I imagine those insurance policies would be hard for a family to afford if you're insuring yourself for the kind of money you plan to make as a lottery pick.


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[All_Hoosiers 873]

Very very few can do what Mudiay did. I'd just go to college for a year.


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[WayneFleekHoosier 48,386]

I imagine those insurance policies would be hard for a family to afford if you're insuring yourself for the kind of money you plan to make as a lottery pick. Sent from my place of advanced, analytical thinking: the toilet.

THAT may be the case, but you don't know the figures any better than I. These type of things have a way of working out (so many options). The insurance policies are based on chance. The chances that I have an injury in 1 or 2 years of college BB that would be enough to derail my future are very, very slim.

I can't think of a single one! Even Nerlens Noel who had a gruesome injury was still a lotto pick. Joel Embiid who has a host of injuries, still a lotto pick. Maurice Creek doesn't count because although he may have became NBA ready he was nowhere near top 5 status coming into college!!!!

[Dalton26 16,892]

[quote name="WayneHoosier" post="75920" timestamp="1406761347"]If I was good enough to garner over 1 million overseas, then I assume I would be a near certain lottery pick.

In THAT case, I would go to IU and BE KING for a year or 2. Have the time of my life and make Amazing memories. Improve marketing potential. Have an insurance policy in case of injury and go PRO when done having an absolute blast![/quote]

A yr or 2 at IU wasn't an option.


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[WayneFleekHoosier 48,386]

A yr or 2 at IU wasn't an option. Sent from my iPhone using BtownBanners mobile app

Then, in that case, consider me a Dookie! A la Jabari Parker!

1 or 2 years would be plenty.

Thanks for correcting my oversight. It looks like I wanted the best of both worlds like my boy Noah V and tried mixing option 1 and 2. Haha!

[BGleas 7,903]

I'd go to IU for a year and then declare for the draft.

[Josh 12,644]

You are 18 years old, just completed your Senior Year of high school and you have every D1 coach around the country drooling over you. You are a 5 star recruit destined for the NBA.

You have 3 options:

1. Suit up for the Hoosiers until you have your degree REGARDLESS of draft position.
2. Play one season in College and jump to the NBA.
3. Go to China for 5 months, make $1,250,000 (damn near tax free) for your efforts in 30 games where you are given the green light to shoot and score 20-30ppg and have zero chance of getting exposed by better players.


What option would you HONESTLY choose? Defend your answer.


Link: https://sports.yahoo.com/news/will-emmanuel-mudiay-s-jump-to-china-be-the-start-of-a-trend-for-recruits-203740980-nba.html


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Playing for IU would be a dream to me.  But to saddle myself for four years when I could go elsewhere for one year before the NBA....I'd choose the quickest path to be a millionaire.  Just like I would with every other venture in life.  One and done baby, hopefully it's with IU.

[OliviaPope40 6,518]

I would stay and try to win a championship and then win to earn money playing the game that I love.

[coachmayhew 1,414]

I will roll with option #2 one year wearing the candy stripes, then Vonleh me a payday. That is a guaranteed win/win situation, for me at least.

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[coachmayhew 1,414]

[quote name="dalton26" post="75928" timestamp="1406762611"]A yr or 2 at IU wasn't an option.


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It was option 2, one and done.

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[Feathery 4,005]

Well I know I wouldn't win a national title under Crean bc his teams are not consistant enough. So I would pass on my favorite team.

So it's go to a another team and change my allegance for life or go make over a million in China. I'll take the money and live in a different culture before coming back in a year for the NBA.

[Dalton26 16,892]

[quote name="coachmayhew" post="75958" timestamp="1406773598"]It was option 2, one and done. Sent from my Venue 8 3830 using BtownBanners mobile app[/quote] But not with IU like some people seem to be overlooking. The only way IU is an option is if you stay until graduation. Sent from my iPhone using BtownBanners mobile app

[Crimson and Cream 5,825]

I head to Bloomington for one year and bring home a national title before being the top pick in the upcoming draft. China is intriguing for the obvious money concept, but how does dominating a bunch of nobody's improve your draft stock? Other than the $, it doesn't do anything for me. Now if you were to replace the word "China" with "overseas", I might have picked that, as playing over in Europe could be much more beneficial than in China with better competition. Although even then, players who have gone overseas for a year haven't panned out yet (Jennings, Tyler, etc.) so that option worries me some. If I'm good enough to be a top 5 pick in the NBA, there's no way I'm staying 4 years, so that option wasn't heavily considered.

[coachmayhew 1,414]

[quote name="dalton26" post="75963" timestamp="1406775719"]But not with IU like some people seem to be overlooking. The only way IU is an option is if you stay until graduation. Sent from my iPhone using BtownBanners mobile app[/quote]

Indiana is still a college, so the way I read it 2 is open to all D1 schools. I choose Indiana University. But I see how you read it. Just different interpretations I guess.


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