It's that time of the year. Time to watch college basketball players make the mistake of drastically overestimating their abilities and declare for the NBA draft. Look at Arizona. Four starters are leaving early. Just making the NCAA Finals doesn't mean you're ready for the pros.
Nothing's more worrisome, though, than high school players skipping college completely.
Sure, there's money to be made, but you can't put a price on the college experience, from being away from home to broadening social horizons to perfecting add-drop day. Sure, it's easy to try dissuading starry-eyed kids with bad and selfish advisors, that they're not ready. Can't remember the last time I heard somebody say they'd hate to be 21 again, that 32 or 45 or 53 was much more fun. Money will always be there. But you're only 20 once.