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Will the value of playing 20-30 minutes per game in 50-60 college basketball games at LMU in his junior and senior years and the value of getting a B.A. degree from LMU trump the value of having a Stanford B.A. degree over the next 4-5 decades? For Noah's sake, I hope it does, but I know that "sacrific[ing]" a Stanford undergrad degree to get more time on the hardwood is not something I would do.

Nor would I, but then I liked it at Stanford and basketball isn't that important to me, since I am not good at it at all. Which path is the "better" one for Noah Taitz, nobody will ever know because you only live once. He has his reasons, and good luck to him.

Yes I agree that Taitz deserves the freedom to make his own decision.  However, it does make we wonder about our recruiting strategy.  Is MBB capitalizing sufficiently on the offer of a Stanford degree if we are recruiting players who don't value it that highly?

Of course he deserves "the freedom to make his own decision." That wasn't at all the issue I was raising. It was whether he had gotten wise advice in the process of trying to decide whether to "sacrifice" a Stanford degree (and the doors it opens) for the sake of more time on the hardwood of a low-level basketball school when he's clearly lacks NBA potential, and because, according to his self-described friend, he didn't care for SU's "social environment," whatever Noah/his friend meant by that!

[MV72018]

Will the value of playing 20-30 minutes per game in 50-60 college basketball games at LMU in his junior and senior years and the value of getting a B.A. degree from LMU trump the value of having a Stanford B.A. degree over the next 4-5 decades? For Noah's sake, I hope it does, but I know that "sacrific[ing]" a Stanford undergrad degree to get more time on the hardwood is not something I would do.

Nor would I, but then I liked it at Stanford and basketball isn't that important to me, since I am not good at it at all. Which path is the "better" one for Noah Taitz, nobody will ever know because you only live once. He has his reasons, and good luck to him.

Yes I agree that Taitz deserves the freedom to make his own decision.  However, it does make we wonder about our recruiting strategy.  Is MBB capitalizing sufficiently on the offer of a Stanford degree if we are recruiting players who don't value it that highly?

Of course he deserves "the freedom to make his own decision." That wasn't at all the issue I was raising. It was whether he had gotten wise advice in the process of trying to decide whether to "sacrifice" a Stanford degree (and the doors it opens) for the sake of more time on the hardwood of a low-level basketball school when he's clearly lacks NBA potential, and because, according to his self-described friend, he didn't care for SU's "social environment," whatever Noah/his friend meant by that!