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(05-13-2018 10:45 AM)Def Berkkat Wrote:  Every time I come on here and see recent comments on this thread I hope that news has broke that it was all a misunderstanding and he's returning next year.

...and every time I'm disappointed.

It sucks for next year's team, but it's good for the program in the longer term. Also, it's wonderful for Evans.

As a college basketball fan, it's easy to become selfishly myopic. You start to think about the university only in terms of its sports teams. You think that the players are in school mainly for your benefit as a fan of the team. Falling into that type of thinking is what, I believe, is behind much of the opposition to paying college players. Evans is going to make a bunch of money working at the highest level of his chosen profession. UC helped him get there. It's nuts to look at that situation and be disappointed. I want UC hoops to be a top program and win a title and everything else, but it's a bit perverse to consider things solely through how it affects us fans in the short term.