Awak Kuier Going Pro

[Sakibomb25]

Bad advice. In fact, total irresponsible advice. Stinks. Shameful. Basketball, as a career, is open only to a few, and even to those who make it, their careers are short, sometimes from injury. A college education, on the other hand, is for life.

But if she can still get a free education in Finland (according to a poster above), then she still has an education to fall back on...

 

[Dokey]

It was great advice. WNBA career is perfectly compatible with getting a college degree.

Nonsense

 

[meyers7]

Can you put a break on the snark? Care to behave yourself? I'm sure we'd all appreciate it.

Ah come on, snark is what makes this place interesting.

 

[HopJim]

Of course, a great number of European women don't need to come to America to play for the WNBA and that league's crappy pay. Better to save their bodies, extend their careers, and only pay for the Big Bucks in Europe, Russia, and Turkey.

Belgian star Emma Meeseman blew off the WNBA in favor of prepping for the Belgian national team. And other players seem to regularly take off a season or two to either rest up or do something else with their lives.

Always tough to advocate one way or another, go college or pros. In any profession, I always counsel to look at the long term, not just 2-3+ years. If you have a brand image, as the top US college players have, you make more particularly in Europe and Asia. Having a college degree helps after that. Yes, you could get injured in college but you could also fail or be average as a pro and be left the no post bball career and few prospects.

 

[Argonaut]

But if she can still get a free education in Finland (according to a poster above), then she still has an education to fall back on...

From Study.eu...

1. Can you study in Finland for free?
Yes, you can!

If you are a citizen of a country in the European Union (EU), the European Economic Area (EEA) countries, or Switzerland, you can study in Finland for free - you do not have to pay any tuition fees.

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You can Google it and find a lot of articles about how it all works, but yea, if basketball doesn't work out she'll still be able to get a free college education.

 

[Superhuskies]

She could also "study" at..UConn...for "free.".. G.A. would be her "tutor"..