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Message: [QUOTE="Fairfield Fan, post: 3850031, member: 6911"] Ummm...Could I point out that almost every top male basketball player in America spends one year- the required one year- in college, then turns pro? There's even an expression for it: "One and done." If Paige is offered $400,000 a year for three years in Europe, or from a Russian club, she shouldn't consider taking it? At what salary point do top women athletes drop out of college and turn pro? UConn fans would certainly like to enjoy her performances for the full four years. But if she could earn over a million bucks before what would have been college graduation, why not? Women athletes have the right to turn pro, just like male athletes. We long ago stopped viewing men turning pro as betraying their universities and teammates. It's not immoral for men to leave college to pick up big bucks, or try to. So why is it wrong for women athletes? Paige has nothing more to prove to pro scouts. Megan Walker left UConn a year before graduation to turn pro in the WNBA. How long does Paige have to stay? I'm guessing she's thinking about it. [/QUOTE]