of the game, and therefore did not develop deep sentimentalities about the big dance. He was taught to look at things from a business perspective and he could play for a scholarship or play for a salary and he chose the salary. Its hard for BYU fans who love BYU and the big dance to relate to that. From a business perspective playing another year as an amateur was not wiser than going pro.

Chances were still quite low that if he stayed another year he would parlay a deep NCAA tourney run into a guaranteed contract on an NBA team. I know bitter BYU homers love to argue that, but the combination of those two things happening were really small. he is a great player, but whether staying 2, 3, or 4 years at BYU would be a fringe NBA guy.

I love to get the really talented players to stay at BYU, whether they want to stay for 1, 2, 3, or 4 years. I don't begrudge them if they don't stick around all 4 years, because they don't owe that to me. Now if I care enough about that, I can pay them an NIL deal to reward them for their time instead of assuming that they share the same sentimentalities that I do for the big dance.