lebron james 75 million+ shoe contract???

[gioperation]

Originally posted by stkmtimo
I hope LeBron James fails. I can't stand him, he's broken NCAA and Ohio State High School Rules and he needs to pay. He's probably going to be screwed going into the NBA the other guys are just too good, just wait and see. Should have went to college. I would never play a pro sport.

Tim

Tim you are my buddy, but now I am going to half to curse you, are you freaking crazy, you never hope that someone fails unless they screw you to get there, this guy did nothing wrong, IMO, do you have any idea how much his HS made off of him, right you don't, he deserves everything that is going to get, and here is another thing, who else besides mello is looking good really entering the draft, yeah you have a few, but overrall it looks pretty weak if you take king james out of it.

Iggy I have to agree growing up in the hood, this was kids dreams to make pro sports as that was the only opportunity, hey timmy are you still saying bill gates and michael dell need to go finish their degrees on the side, I think not, what is the purpose of college anyway, to start a foundation to get to where you want to be anyway. he is going where he wants to go, he has nothing to prove, he is going to a v, ve, ver, very, r, ri, ric, rich, young man.(taken from the boxer from harlem nights, you know what he said) The hell with college he can buy one.

[stkmtimo]

Yeah, crappy draft class. Carmelo, LeBron, Luke Ridnour and Darko Millic look like the best prospects. I don't want LeBron to fail, I just want to him to keep his priorities straight just like all other atheletes. In fact, I can't wait to see him play in the NBA.

Well, he should go to college but if you're making money...I don't know, I'd rather be making tons of money, but be smart in the process. I'd go to college on the side.

Tim

[gioperation]

college doesn't do anything for you, but show you have some stupid discipline that is it, you learn most of what you need to know on the job anyway, I don't think that there is any career int eh world you can't learn on the job, and be better than a person coming out of college. College teaches you to work for someone else, not to think for yourself, for the most part.

[IggyWH]

The sad thing is, now-a-days to get a decent job that pays well, you need that slip of paper that says you went to a certain school for 4 years. Sure it sucks, but it's the way things are now-a-days. True, you can learn a lot from on-job training, but hiring someone out of college you know you're getting a person whose education is versitile... also, how many people out of high school even know Calc?

[gioperation]

yeah I understand but how many jobs use calc, hell if someone explained to me I would get it, if I had to use it everyday for a job. College prepares you for the corporate america, and that is it, not for the real world, you know college is a fantasy. I went for a couple of years and I did pretty well avg 3.2 gpa, but I left to go into the casino industry as a dealer and heck made 38K my first year and the last year I dealt I made 46K and when I was leaving the industry I was offered 68K for a supverisor and I have been over close to 100K for a manager spot in the virgin islands before. I left the industry to go into sales and did really well there and the funny thing is I meet all these 45+ guys that are looking for jobs because they got downsized with their college degrees and mba's. going for jobs you need no college for. The casino's don't lay off and they don't downsize, at least that I know of.

Being a financial rep I have ran into a ton of people that I interviewed for our company talking I am to old nobody will hire me and I got house and car payments kids in school, that is why people want and should own their own business,yeah 80% of them go out of business in the 1st year, college degree or not, but it is so much more peaceful, if you fail try something else, usually you will fail 1 or 2 times before it works for you, but you have to keep trying.

I am simply saying college is not for me, you can't be a lawyer or doctor without going to college, and just a few others careers but other than that you can be taught on the job, that is where you learn your job anyhow.

[podstock]

Tim, stop being jealous.

The reason a person goes to college is to get an education to get a job that pays you money.

Lebron will be getting PAID!!

Very few people ever go to college solely for educational purposes.

The question is: can Lebron live up to the hype

[gioperation]

Originally posted by podstock
Tim, stop being jealous.

The reason a person goes to college is to get an education to get a job that pays you money.

Lebron will be getting PAID!!

Very few people ever go to college solely for educational purposes.

The question is: can Lebron live up to the hype

perfectly said pod, but seriously it doesn't really matter at this point, he is going to a very rich young man before he even play 1 minute of a regulation nba game. The money is on the ones betting on him, just like us trying to get the the cards that are might go up in value.

[pwaldo]

Originally posted by IggyWH
Where are the people now who said he's foolish for entering the NBA draft and not going to college? Oh yeah, that's right... they're too busy being slaves for $30,000 a year jobs!

I always believed that everyone who said he should go to college to "become a man and experience everything a "normal" kid his age would do" just said that because they were jealous of him making so much money.

Second I think that is TOO much money for a shoe contract. Do kids even buy sneakers for $200 nowadays? That use to be very popular before where you need shoes that were over $100 to be "cool" but times have changed.

[IggyWH]

He was supposed to make his decision... any word from anywhere who he signed with? I assume since he's been wearing Addidas stuff from HS that he's used to it and they would have the inside track... but just like Miami going to the ACC, money is the answer to everything.

[gioperation]

nope I don't agree, I would have too, we have all took free stuff in HS, I just the few guys that went to my HS, that are now in the big leagues used to come back and give up gloves and bats, I just that was a crime too.lol

those leagues jsut want to pimp the players...