Andrew Luck, the Stanford University quarterback and Heisman Trophy runner-up, says he will be staying with the Cardinal next season, according to the university's athletic department.
Luck, a redshirt sophomore from Houston, Texas, had been projected by many to be the first quarterback taken - and perhaps the first pick - in the NFL draft.
ESPN reported Tuesday that high-ranking officials with the Carolina Panthers, the NFL's worst team this year, said they would take Luck with the first pick, and SI.com's Andrew Perloff predicted Luck would go to the Panthers if he entered the draft.
NFL rules require that underclassmen declare early whether they intend to enter the draft. January 15 is their deadline.
"I am committed to earning my degree in architectural design from Stanford University and am on track to accomplish this at the completion of the spring quarter of 2012," Luck said in a Stanford news release.
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Initially, this looks like a bad decision money wise, but with the League and Players still without an Agreement, and with the owners pushing for a Rookie cap, players drafted this April will probably be left in limbo waiting for the CBA to be agreed upon. In this case, waiting probably wont hurt him much, and if he doesn't get hurt next year (and that's a big IF), he will be the favorite to win the Heisman.
If the only reason he is staying is because he doesn't like Carolina this year, he probably wont like next years worst team any more (guessing Cleveland, Cincinnati, Arizona, Washington or still Carolina next year).
Let's watch him for the rest of his college career and hope he does not get a career ending injury before he can enter the draft. If he do'es, he will need that degree.
If he suffers a career ending injury next year are all of you "good for him" guys going to pony up the 50 million he would have made if he'd been drafted?
Obviously not a good decision, ask Snead from Ole Miss and Locker from Washington.
Good for him...You can't play football forever...However, no one will EVER take your education away from you...
/facepalm. Obviously we have a retard in stanford park. He is dumb like for real.
He chose to do what he feels is right. I'm guessing that a lot of the naysayers have gone through life not happy with their choices and it is pretty stupid to say that the only right choice was to go for the money.
Think I would have entered the draft. Bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.
I think the top pick is at Auburn...
May be a good move to stay in school. It is also a way to tell the Panthers to stick it without saying it. If I played pro football I would not want to play for them either. He can get drafted by someone else and not demand a trade like so many others have that did not want to play for the team that drafted them.
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I agree that a Stanford degree is worth millions. It just doesn't hurt to get that degree after having received a $50 million signing bonus, fulfilling a childhood dream of playing in the NFL and BEING THE FIRST PLAYER SELECTED in the draft. Dude can still do everything after playing in the NFL, possibly doing great things, becoming a household name and then getting a degree from Stanford. How many people can say that they graduated from Stanford every year? How many can say they were the first selection in the NFL draft, made $50, $100... million AND graduated from Stanford?
Not a smart move by a lot of standards. Dude could do everything that the fairy tale tellers above are saying and be the 1st pick in the NFL draft and become a very wealthy man. Check again at who you got in your ear Andy.
He can go either way and have it made in the shade.
DUMB! Last years #1 signed for 78 million. hummm...let me see, 78 million or a degree i could always get later after football.
Good for him as he isn't desperate for money and wants to earn his degree. But as far as smart, it could be if he doesnt want to play for the panthers and doesn't want to pull an Elway or Eli Manning move. And for every Manning there is a Matt Leinart. Even Sam Crawford who got injured. Lucky for him he recovered. But Steve Young got a law
school degree during and after the NFL.
Robert Smith wanted to go to medical school after the NFL.
You get 50 million bucks, play for 5-10 years, and then do whatever the hell you want. 99.9 percent of college grads and non
Grads who go work a 9-5 career wont make 2 million bucks over a 30 year career. So turning down 50 million bucks, maybe guaranteed, at 22 isn't really smart. People just like to assume it is.