Selfishly, I'm happy to see Harrison Barnes return to North Carolina for his sophomore season. I enjoyed watching him play. And as good as he was, he'll become better. College coaches have much more time to teach than their NBA counterparts do.
But I tire of people like myself saying that a kid did the right thing by staying. How would I know what's best for a teenage basketball star? When a player leaves North Carolina early, we never say, "He did the right thing" -- unless we cheer for Duke.
Nobody came to my journalism school and told me that if I leave early they'd pay me lots of money. If a newspaper had, I wonder if I would have said, "No, it's all about education for me, so take your tawdry dollars while I head to class and to the library and to my part-time job on Friday night and Saturday night and to my dive apartment."
Nobody came after me. Nobody came after you. The NBA would have come after Harrison Barnes.
I'm glad Barnes is staying. But had he chosen to become a lottery pick, I would have been fine with that, too.
He made the right decision until he blows out a knee in a shoot around during the chiquita banana preseason shootout. Good Luck
Posted by: ACL tears kill careers | April 19, 2011 at 05:32 PM
Maybe he isn't selfish and greedy like some of you people out there who think life is all about money money money. Truth is that there are alot more things in life to look forward to and work towards besides having more money than you know what to do with.
Posted by: bob | April 19, 2011 at 10:11 PM
Truth=Pain just said the best thing for these young men and their coach was to die the hard painful death of a airplane crash. Special, real special.
Posted by: Mark Wells | April 22, 2011 at 08:40 AM
Overrated. He aint all that ...
Posted by: earl of duke | April 24, 2011 at 09:35 AM
MONEY isn't everything!!! There's also women to consider. Dude will probably meet his wife at Carolina. Then he'll really be a success.
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