OT - Jeremy Tyler Going To Europe, After Junior Year Of High School

Horrible decision. At least finish high school. He isn't going to become a star in Europe over night. People say Rubio or Parker started playing professionally since they were 16, but they're special talents and they have been playing in a higher competition level longer. Everyone saw what happened to Brandon Jennings even after he was regarded as the best high school point guard out there.

 

Good for Tyler. I've been to Europe. I've had my senior year of high school. I got a lot more out of Europe.

It's amazing how many here say he'll never develop in Europe, and tomorrow night they'll be cheering for our Euro rookie Rudy Fernandez.

Would Rudy be a much better player if he'd left Spain at the age of 15 to have his senior year of high school in America, then go on to college for a few years, then applied for the draft? The fact that nobody has ever even suggested it shows how ridiculous the idea is.

What really riles people up is that he's doing something different, and that he's doing it in Europe. It's somehow un-American or anti-American.

To me it's just common sense.

 

It's just in sports. We support child celebrities in music, film, and television all the time. A lot of those kids are way more fucked up than Tyler will ever be for missing one year of high school.

 

HSs and GED classes aren't going anywhere. If he blows ou this knee in Europe, he could have just as easily blown his knee out his senior year of HS. The only difference is the money he'll have in his pocket from his first year contract.

 

That is what lawyers call "an argument that proves too much." The % of child actors who wind up dead, in prison, in rehab, etc is scandalous. Why should sports adopt a model that has already been proven to be a failure?

 

Why bring Hollywood into the mix when we have so many other more relevant examples from sports and specifically basketball? How are Rudy, Batum, TParker, Kirilenko, and dozens of others doing who spent time in the Euroleagues as teenagers? How about tennis players? Or baseball? Or hockey?

I have several personal examples of friends who lost their way (and then some) after they joined the US armed services at 18, but like Hollywood child actors thats a completely different scenario.

STOMP

 

i would do the same thing. high school is useless. and its not like a diploma can you get a good job anyways

 

Having the talent to work abroad for a 6 or 7 figure salary at 17 is an amazing life experience and much more valuable than an ordinary year of high school.

 

I'm suddenly embarrassed..........and ashamed.

 

Never saw it by this perspective, very well put.

 

Oh hell, let's just abandon education all together. Sure 99.999% of the kids will wind up flipping burgers or panhandling on the street - but we wouldn't want to hold back that tiny percentage who will be become successful jocks, rap stars, or drug lords.

 

Nobody is talking at all about completely abandoning education, and it's ridiculous to try to stretch it to that conclusion. He is given an opportunity to make money now to pursue a career. The article stated he was working on getting his HS diploma, so he hasn't abandoned education at all. Thing is, there is a limited time to do some careers, sports being a primary one, whereas education is always available to people. Like was mentioned before, if he flames out after a year or two, he will easily have enough money to pay in full for his education. Will he? Who knows. But acting like 1 year in HS, of which he is taking online classes for, and 1 year of college was going to give him this vast education he is otherwise missing? .

 

Well I can think of one case where education has failed...your argument skills.

 

I support this statement. More jobs for me!

 

Hardly. There are several posts in this thread that describe getting an education (in general) and high school (in particular) as a waste of time.

 

High school IS a waste of time. A person would be better off skipping high school all together and going straight to community college. The only thing they would be missing out on is the social side, but for some kids, it's the social aspect that hurts them more than it helps.

 

Why, because I refuse to be a luddite sheep and accept the claim that school is a waste of time? Have you actually read what some of the posters in this thread are saying?

BTW, if I'm so wrong - why the personal attack? You seem to have a hard time dealing in a civil manner with anybody who disagrees with you.

 

Yeah, HS is good mainly for the social aspects. The most valuable course I took in high school was TYPING. Most of the other shit you can learn on your own.

 

Actually the sheep are the ones who say that a high school education is a valuable thing...when its totally a waste when one really thinks about it. It teaches people to follow a path, to be lazy and to expect things to happen instead of making them happen.

American high schools are a disgrace. There has to be some kind of real education reform that makes education relevant instead of wasting time.