The major difference between Webb, Woods, and Bryant is that Woods was guaranteed millions in sponsorships the day he quit college whether he panned out or not. Same for Kobe, plus several million in signing bonuses from the Lakers. I'll take a guess and say that Webb's sponsorship is well below $1 million per year. If Tiger & Kobe didn't pan out, they had enough to live on for life if they were halfway intelligent with the money.
If Webb doesn't show significant improvement in the next year or two, it's over. He can't live off of his high school career forever and no sponsor is going to throw the same amount of money his way for it. --- "Martin J. Dixon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is someone privy to his deals? Let's say he was paid the same as Kobe > and Tiger > then what say you? Some people seem to be strictly looking at the > dollars. Take > it off the table because we don't know. He thinks he has a good coach > who won't > screw it up like some people think is going to happen. He is going to > get an > education. Presumably he is getting paid a bunch of money. Lots of > people have > developed very well thank very much and have never even heard of your > precious > NCAA. This is not complicated. It's back to a coaching argument. Let's > say he > isn't as well off financially long-term, perhaps he should be given > credit for > looking at other things other than the dollars. Most of this list is > American and > you would still all be pledging allegiance to the queen if a few people > didn't > think outside of the box a couple of hundred years ago. Not to mention > Neil > Armstrong etc. etc. The comments Mike P has made are offensive to GMU. I > have no > idea if he has made the right move and it will be an impossible thing to > evaluate > down the road in any event. > Regards, > Martin > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Not at all a proper comparison. Tiger and Webb. We are talking whole > lot more > > dollars > > > > In a message dated 6/20/2002 8:36:22 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > > > >Would anybody have said to Tiger Woods that he needed to > > >stay at Stanford through a full four-year ride? > > > > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! - Official partner of 2002 FIFA World Cup http://fifaworldcup.yahoo.com
