pcowlax wrote: ↑Tue May 24, 2022 4:17 pm
Soooo, he wanted to go to graduate school, Georgetown was too expensive so he is going to Jacksonville instead? Not sure what field he is pursuing but those are not exactly comparable schools, no idea of his financial situation but it would seem the tuition would have to be pretty starkly different for that to make any sense at all, assuming he wasn't having any issues on a lax team which is certain to be in the top 3 pre-season next year.
I don't see that there's anything weird or confusing about this. He got his Georgetown degree, which is what he originally set out to do. Finishing with an extra year of eligibility was an unanticipated windfall from 2020. Guy was academic All-Big East every year, no slacker by any means, but he may or may not have had more schooling on the radar as a possibility for right after college. From what others have posted, it sounds like his first choice would've been to stick around at Georgetown. But once that turned out not to be practicable, what's wrong with going to Jacksonville?
Maybe he wants to be in Florida, and this gives him a year to network down there before launching out on the job market. Maybe he's a Canuck who feels like he's seen one side of the USA, i.e., "woke latte townhouse imperial courtiers educated 'in the Jesuit tradition'" and is curious how the other half lives.
Alternatively, maybe, just maybe, he will someday come to look back on this decision as driven not by pure rationality, but by some vague mix of beach-and-hot-girls-related factors. I look back in the same way on several important decisions I made when I was around Watson's age. And those decisions resulted in *some of the happiest moments of my life*, really only trumped by having kids of my own and getting to enjoy their prerogative to be silly and stupid and free.
tl;dr: Get off the kid's back. He's earned the benefit of the doubt that this is probably a good decision. And even if it turns out to be a "bad" decision, he's earned the right to make it.