A Good Year for the Outlaw

In the post I just wrote, the one below this one, I mention the NBA being easier to watch now than college ball.

Which reminded me of the recent discussion I listened to regarding Peoria’s own Shaun Livingston. He’s badly injured right now, and people were saying (was it a radio talk show? I think it was!) that he’s going to regret not going to college now if he’s done playing.

Wrong. He’s got the money now to pay for his own education, should he choose to do that. He chose to go pro out of high school, he was good enough to get drafted in the first round, and he took the money. NO ONE any of us knows would have done it any differently, and those same people complaining about him skipping college would be doing a 180 if he was at Duke and had the same injury. They’d be saying, “he should have taken the money.”

Take the money every time. College can wait, if it’s needed at all. And here’s hoping he can come back from this latest injury and return to the form the Clippers knew he was capable of when they drafted him, and the form he had flashed this season as his minutes increased.