Washout QB News

[SuperHornet]

Yahoo! is reporting that we're not likely to see Raiders washout JaMarcus Russell back in the NFL any time soon. He has apparently moved back to Baton Rouge and enrolled at LSU to finish his degree.

Good on him for that. For me, though, this is proof that leaving early should be outlawed. I know it'll never get past the courts, but this kind of debacle could have been prevented by making him finish his degree (not to mention developing his game). At least he's smart enough to go back to finish the degree that will help him survive in the years to come, as all too many guys who leave early fail to do.

[grizband]

How could this "debacle" been prevented if Russell finished college before joining the NFL? Another year at LSU, and he would have been an unmotivated QB with a degree; wouldn't have made his NFL performance any better. This leads to another point: why would we ban them from leaving early? I get making them stay until their Junior season, but banning it all together? Say a regular student majoring in Computer Science is offered a job before his senior year, with no contingency on having a degree. Should that person be forced to finish school to get the job?

[JayJ79]

Yahoo! is reporting that we're not likely to see Raiders washout JaMarcus Russell back in the NFL any time soon. He has apparently moved back to Baton Rouge and enrolled at LSU to finish his degree.

Good on him for that. For me, though, this is proof that leaving early should be outlawed. I know it'll never get past the courts, but this kind of debacle could have been prevented by making him finish his degree (not to mention developing his game). At least he's smart enough to go back to finish the degree that will help him survive in the years to come, as all too many guys who leave early fail to do.

should they also outlaw dropping out of school to start one's own internet startup business and the like?

[tampajag]

this was his problem:

[SuperHornet]

How could this "debacle" been prevented if Russell finished college before joining the NFL? Another year at LSU, and he would have been an unmotivated QB with a degree; wouldn't have made his NFL performance any better. This leads to another point: why would we ban them from leaving early? I get making them stay until their Junior season, but banning it all together? Say a regular student majoring in Computer Science is offered a job before his senior year, with no contingency on having a degree. Should that person be forced to finish school to get the job?

Can you prove that? Given the fact that FBS serves as nothing more than the NFL's free minor league, one more year of seasoning could have eliminated some of the bad habits that caused his banishment from Oakland. It certainly wouldn't have hurt. Plus, with the degree, he would have had something to fall back on had the NFL not worked out. Which means that he'd be gainfully employed right now instead of back in school.

Watch out for the non-sequiturs, dude. The NFL is a conglomerate with overarching authority over its member clubs. Computer science has nothing to do with that. We're not talking federal law, which would cover EVERY industry. We're talking about maturity and ability levels of the average guy going into the job and factoring in average salary levels. Higher salary levels require higher maturity, both because of PR and because of the effect of that salary on one's lifestyle. If one CS guy screws up his first year on the job (DUI, bad fit for the job, etc.), the company isn't going to have a PR meltdown or lost sales. A #1 draft pick heads into camp with a DUI, and the whole world knows about it. Plus, a CS guy isn't going to make seven figures in his first job. Without the maturity that a full four years of college will add to a guy, he could easily bust himself with a different hot rod for every day of the week and putting it into bad investments. He's also likely to saddle himself with a bad agent, who could rip him for ever penny. A CS guy doesn't have to worry about that. Besides, a guy working for Apple doesn't have to worry about an overarching conglomerate establishing standards of performance.

Based on THAT, I have NO problem with making undergrads ineligible for the draft until their CLASS has graduated. Of course, as technical as the NFL is, who really wants a guy who flunked out?

[bandl]

At least he's smart enough to go back to finish the degree that will help him survive in the years to come, as all too many guys who leave early fail to do.

Can you prove that?

[Grizalltheway]

What's your boy crush Tebow going to do now that he's on his way to being a washout QB?

[SuperHornet]

What's your boy crush Tebow going to do now that he's on his way to being a washout QB?

Who says he's on his way out? YOU? That's hardly a trustworthy source.