Kolek planning to go pro
Yup. Looks like Heisy's conspiracy theory is an impossibility because even if Lawrence would go to the XFL or anywhere else, his only entry to the NFL is through the draft.Article 6, Section 2 (d) of the CBA:No player shall be eligible to be employed by an NFL Club until he has been eligible for selection in an NFL Draft.
Two issues here ... How fast does Lawrence want to make money? How worried is he about injury affecting his income potential before getting paid? If the answer is "fast" and "worried" then he has the XFL option when they start in a year.
Second ... is he like Elway and Manning and particular about the team he plays for? If the "wrong" team" drafts him, he can wait them out a year in the XFL until he becomes a free agent.
Related to this, what would Kraft and Jones stop at to get him? Answer ... nothing. Fines and loss of draft picks are just the cost of doing business.
Wait, was I just not paying attention to the username, or did heise already change his username since being called out?Yeah, I’m buying that heise simply needs more attention and wants his clicks, and that is 100% what this thread is for. Heise knows, as we all do, that this will not happen, but he’ll keep asking questions just to say, “See, this is how a thread runs! What a great discussion we have going!”
That's not how it works. If Lawrence gets drafted and refuses to sign with the team that drafts him, he doesn't become a free agent. He goes back into the draft.
So, why are we saying Jerry or Bob can't get him through the draft? Trade.
Two issues here ... How fast does Lawrence want to make money? How worried is he about injury affecting his income potential before getting paid? If the answer is "fast" and "worried" then he has the XFL option when they start in a year.Second ... is he like Elway and Manning and particular about the team he plays for? If the "wrong" team" drafts him, he can wait them out a year in the XFL until he becomes a free agent.Related to this, what would Kraft and Jones stop at to get him? Answer ... nothing. Fines and loss of draft picks are just the cost of doing business.
Didn't see this thread the first time, but...I do have a question for anyone that knows...Why doesn't Nike / Adidas / UA /etc give him a couple million $, pay for training, and hype him for 2 years to avoid the whole college thing? Why risk injury playing anywhere but the NFL for the next 2 years, and seems like a good investment for a guaranteed contract for the athletic apparel company.I don't follow this much, so maybe it's not allowed, or companies don't actually want to put up that dough. It all seems silly to me that the kid can't go pro and make money now. But that's a debate that has been argued here a bunch...
Look, if a star quarterback wants to play for a specific team, he will! Period.Not many of you remember John Elway was drafted out of Stanford by the Indianapolis Colts. Mr. Elway never played a single down for the Colts and made it clear he would never sign with them. His rights were traded to the Denver Broncos.If an all-world quarterback said, "I want to play for the Dallas Cowboys" and played the same game Mr. Elway did, I'm sure the NFL would find a way. Unless Jerry Jones made it clear he did not want him (yeah, right!).
Maurice, I guess you forgot that you actually won your case and then it was overturned on appeal. (FYI - now Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor overturned the ruling when she was on the appellate court.)You dropped it because tOSU threw you out of school on some trumped up academic violation charges (no one takes classes at tOSU). You also did not help your situation by getting arrested for armed robbery.Lawrence could sue and now not suffer because of it. Clemson will probably not run him out of school. And if they did, Oliver Luck has a big checkbook waiting for him.