[ColoradoTree]

Interesting. It would seem to me that a guy who gets a Stanford degree would be more of a "Stanford guy" than one who leaves without a degree to get the big bucks in the pros, regardless of what the former does after he gets the degree. I guess we all have our opinions.

Christian plans on coming back and finishing. Justin Reid is back on campus this quarter to keep working towards his degree. To me, there's nothing sacred about finishing in four years and then going pro. The right time, financially and health-wise, for those two guys to go was when they went. Getting the degree is critical, don't get me wrong--if Christian announced he no longer planned on getting his degree, I'd sour on him. But Justin has said he thinks it'll take 3-4 years of coming back and taking classes to finish up. I'm completely fine with that. As long as there is a plan to come back, I'm good. 

We don't have to share Christian or Justin with any other school. They're ours and ours alone. We have to share Reid Travis with Kentucky, and it's always the last school that becomes your "true" school for the purposes of how the world sees you. For example, Brennan Scarlett is ours now, not Cal's. (See this article: they don't even mention his name among the "former players on NFL rosters" - https://calbears.com/news/2018/9/6/footb...sters.aspx). Russell Wilson announces his alma mater in the MNF lineup intros as Wisconsin, not N.C. State. If Reid Travis somehow does make the NBA (and I agree that's not terribly likely, but one never knows), he'll be known to the world as a Kentucky guy, not a Stanford guy. 

Again, I don't begrudge Reid Travis anything. Good for him. But he went to another school, so he's necessarily not our guy and our guy alone anymore.

[ColoradoTree]

Interesting. It would seem to me that a guy who gets a Stanford degree would be more of a "Stanford guy" than one who leaves without a degree to get the big bucks in the pros, regardless of what the former does after he gets the degree. I guess we all have our opinions.

Christian plans on coming back and finishing. Justin Reid is back on campus this quarter to keep working towards his degree. To me, there's nothing sacred about finishing in four years and then going pro. The right time, financially and health-wise, for those two guys to go was when they went. Getting the degree is critical, don't get me wrong--if Christian announced he no longer planned on getting his degree, I'd sour on him. But Justin has said he thinks it'll take 3-4 years of coming back and taking classes to finish up. I'm completely fine with that. As long as there is a plan to come back, I'm good. 

We don't have to share Christian or Justin with any other school. They're ours and ours alone. We have to share Reid Travis with Kentucky, and it's always the last school that becomes your "true" school for the purposes of how the world sees you. For example, Brennan Scarlett is ours now, not Cal's. (See this article: they don't even mention his name among the "former players on NFL rosters" - https://calbears.com/news/2018/9/6/footb...sters.aspx). Russell Wilson announces his alma mater in the MNF lineup intros as Wisconsin, not N.C. State. If Reid Travis somehow does make the NBA (and I agree that's not terribly likely, but one never knows), he'll be known to the world as a Kentucky guy, not a Stanford guy. 

Again, I don't begrudge Reid Travis anything. Good for him. But he went to another school, so he's necessarily not our guy and our guy alone anymore.