[PackerBoy]

Predictions: (Not wishes)

1. This will have little impact on the NCAA or NFL, as most players will still want to maximize their value in the draft by waiting until after their junior year to go pro.

2. MC will be drafted by a crappy team no higher than the second round, and will be injured before the regular 2004 NFL season starts.

[John O]

and will be injured before the regular 2004 NFL season starts.

Very badly, during training camp, as soon as the older, bigger guys who's place (and money) he's trying to take get a chance to hit him.

[Atlas Sneezed]

1. This will have little impact on the NCAA or NFL, as most players will still want to maximize their value in the draft by waiting until after their junior year to go pro.

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I wonder if it might start to reduce the farcical "scholar athlete" model in some colleges. Then again, college basketball is filled with non-students, so who knows.

[freeangel]

Then he we will be hearing of a suit that claims that the NFL, the judge who allowed him to play, and his former attorneys should have known he was not mature enough to play and were the cause of his injuries that will keep him from making megadollars.