The college experience could do him some good, but in terms of basketball, it's not going to make him bigger, it's not going to get him ready for the pros any quicker. My son wouldn't have been Eddy Curry, he'd be a late or middle first-round pick. To many, that's enough reason to send a high school player to college or keep a college player around for another season. The prevailing wisdom in the amateur game these days is if a player is a lottery pick, then he should enter the draft. If not, wait, keep working, and eventually get there.
College coaches preach the long road to success.
I believe there are stages you go through to get there. To me, that gets lost in this thing. But if you want to be really good at it, that means you learn. You learn about yourself, you mature, you learn about the game, you learn about people. People do it in law, medicine.