O.J. Mayo to USC, what you think?

[Butterfly Baby]

I will believe it when I see it

[letstalksports]

Turn it on ESPN (The Worldwide Leader in Sports). I would venture to say that is a pretty reliable source.

[Butterfly Baby]

Turn it on ESPN (The Worldwide Leader in Sports). I would venture to say that is a pretty reliable source.

 

You dont understand. I mean when I see him at USC then and only then will I believe it

[Red Shift]

If accurate the most impressive aspect of the signing was the reported ACT score of 29.

A score he got while taking it directly behind me.

I'm still waiting on my score...

[shooterx3]

A score he got while taking it directly behind me.

I'm still waiting on my score...

I wonder if you get a 29 too?

[CatchMeIfYouCan]

Ovinton J'Anthony "O.J." Mayo, was born November 5, 1987

 

http://sports.espn.go.com/ncb/news/story?id=2510229

[CatchMeIfYouCan]

Ovinton J'Anthony "O.J." Mayo, was born November 5, 1987

 

http://sports.espn.go.com/ncb/news/story?id=2510229

 

and another...

[CatchMeIfYouCan]

and another...

 

Already got the USC jersey on...

[Fastbreak]

Wasn't USC O.J. Simpson's college?

 

Maybe this Juice will get it done the right way. :thumb:

[NKYBOY1487]

Everyone repeat after me:

 

ONE AND DONE

[spindoc]

Let me throw this out there. If you were in his shoes, what would you do?

Would you go to college for a year? Would you go to the NBDL? There seems to be a tone of "Why would I want this kid for only a year?" And Pllllllllllllllllleeeeeeaaaaaasssssseeee, I don't want to hear the I'd stay at least 3 years in college before I went to the NBA or I'd get my degree first. That's a bunch of hooey!!! The only reason I went to college and beyond was to make a better living. I didn't do it to expand my knowledge, to become a better, more rounded person (although some of the YAK's and my habits served to make me more round). The bottom line is you go to college generally to enhance your chance to make a better living. In his first shoe deal, he will make more than I will in a lifetime of banner years.

[Fastbreak]

Let me throw this out there. If you were in his shoes, what would you do?

Would you go to college for a year? Would you go to the NBDL? There seems to be a tone of "Why would I want this kid for only a year?" And Pllllllllllllllllleeeeeeaaaaaasssssseeee, I don't want to hear the I'd stay at least 3 years in college before I went to the NBA or I'd get my degree first. That's a bunch of hooey!!! The only reason I went to college and beyond was to make a better living. I didn't do it to expand my knowledge, to become a better, more rounded person (although some of the YAK's and my habits served to make me more round). The bottom line is you go to college generally to enhance your chance to make a better living. In his first shoe deal, he will make more than I will in a lifetime of banner years.

Great points. :thumb:

 

Mayo will earn more in ten years in the NBA and marketing stuff to kids than he would in 30 years with a PhD. He will be able to afford to get a college degree at any university on this planet when his playing days are behind him.

 

Why risk the possibility of a career ending injury while playing added years for (virtually) free at the college level?

[scooterbob]

I would be of the belief that Ovinton will be able to buy his own university and to grant himself a goodly number of doctorates.

[JimmyV]

Good for him, let him take his traveling circus and baggage to the West Coast. Is he a gifted athelete? Of course he is. But there is always some sort of "drama" that surrounds him, maybe it is not him, maybe it is the people that is around him, but there I am sure at times it can be a headache for the program and coach (I am referring to his high school team, not when he gets to college).

[YAKOFNORWEGIA]

Do you think he got the same deal the Bush got? I just wondered how inflation or the economy and the principal of demand affected the deal.