[TigerBlues]

College athletics are fine but it's not for everyone..It's a completely different world than playing in high school...It's very time consuming, as it takes over every single second of whatever time you are not spending in the classroom (year round)..For most the fun is gone...You absolutely have to love the game to sacrifice 4 years of your life to play at that level....College athletics (and the experience), are in my opinion, waaaay over rated....My advice to kids are to have fun and enjoy your high school years and don't be obsessed with playing after high school...There is nothing wrong with worrying more about what will put food on your table for the rest of your lives. Really it's probably the smart decision.

Segar I hope you are right about this, and you are correct about putting food on the table. I just hate that a kid that had this basketball talent is losing out on a once in a lifetime opportunity in the means of continuing his career in hoops and a free education to boot with a degree. I'm not saying he cannot obtain one at Big Sandy then move on to college to complete it but man I'm thinking about all that time put in not only at the high school level but also at summer camps and AAU play. I just feel really sad for his family that sacrificed as much as he did and potentially now nothing to show for it. I am not insinuating he will not obtain a degree just saying all that work to be as good as he was may just have been wasted but if he doesn't want to play basketball that's fine and it had to be a difficult thing to do. Best to him in the future.