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Apr 19, 2024
9:19:32pm

airbug Contributor

If you're not good enough to make the NBA, take the money now.

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airbug

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BYU is special

temosabe

Apr 19, 7:32pm

This is what I’m talking about. CB needs to focus on what BYU can offer that players can’t get elsewhere.

Soupie

Apr 19, 7:36pm

That is all true. If someone offered my son $300k, I'm telling him to take it.

Madam Pattirini

Apr 19, 7:37pm

And if the team he already has a position at matches it, I tell him to stay put.

Soupie

Apr 19, 7:40pm

For sure. The delta would be the measure.

Madam Pattirini

Apr 19, 8:51pm

Why so you could buy a crap townhome?

palangi

Apr 19, 8:55pm

Did you turn down 300k to magnify your calling?

Honor Code

Apr 19, 9:25pm

In missed opportunity? Absolutely, the time I’ve dedicated to unpaid service hrs

palangi

Apr 19, 9:52pm

Financially securing his family is magnifying his husband-dad calling

Honor Code

Apr 20, 6:56am

IMO there is no better place for LDS undergrads than BYU

Apr 19, 9:38pm

Yeah. If I’m making 100k at BYU and someone offers 300 I’m out.

Don Carlton

Apr 19, 7:44pm

Stop it! You don’t know that BYU isn’t offering $300k either. Why assume they aren’t?

Soupie

Apr 19, 7:45pm

I’m not implying any definitive number. I am saying we can’t judge a kid

Don Carlton

Apr 19, 7:48pm

The OP used the words “getting more money”

JoeExotic

Apr 19, 8:10pm

They followed it by saying there’s more to success than that in the long run too.

Soupie

Apr 19, 8:12pm

I agree with that and actually agree with most of what was in the OP.

Don Carlton

Apr 19, 8:18pm

Money is a major factor

JoeExotic

Apr 19, 8:34pm

And any of us advocating for more positive tone know that & have included if BYU is similar.

Soupie

Apr 19, 9:16pm

I’m not sure what you are so riled up about.

JoeExotic

Apr 20, 2:43am

Not riled up just trying to shift the tone here where people assume it’s a wider gap than it might be. BYU is in it.

Soupie

Apr 20, 9:41am

Whatever you say defender of the tone.

CallSign

Apr 20, 11:10am

Happy to own that.

Soupie

Apr 20, 3:00pm

He’s merely saying if he were a BYU player and was offered more money to play

CallSign

Apr 19, 8:42pm

But that wasn’t what the OP said at all.

Soupie

Apr 19, 9:17pm

Absolutely

JoeExotic

Apr 19, 8:03pm

The money still matters. “Special” doesn’t change that.

Apr 19, 8:12pm

BYU is special but if these kids can get paid to play basketball, they should.

LO Cougar

Apr 19, 8:38pm

RE: BYU is special but if these kids can get paid to play basketball, they

temosabe

Apr 19, 9:33pm

I think the "smart money" bet is to get some candid, outside assessment of your

Jasbo

Apr 19, 8:50pm

If you're not good enough to make the NBA, take the money now.

airbug

Apr 19, 9:19pm

Agree.

Jasbo

Apr 19, 9:57pm

It might be unsaid but people are conflating BYU and the church. Deciding to

GilbertAZCougar

Apr 19, 10:28pm

RE: BYU is special

LuvtheCougs

Apr 19, 10:49pm

No better person to convey this than Shane Reese, he turned down a lot of money

DC15

Apr 20, 12:25am

BYU’s lifelong networking & relationships are hard to quantify.

Soupie

Apr 20, 8:12am

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