<p>"Stanford quarterback Andrew Luck, the odds-on favorite to be the No. 1 pick in this spring's NFL draft, announced Thursday he will stay in school and play his redshirt junior season.</p>
<p>"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 statement"</p>
<p>I'm thinking "of course!" Husband seems surprised.</p>
<p>a lot of guys i know, and yes i mean the male sex, seem to value the money more than the degree or the experience. they say something like “well he’ll regret it when he gets injured next year and loses the $50 million”. or “he’ll never have to work a day in his life after that”.</p>
<p>from people that know him, andrew luck really cares about getting his degree and finishing his undergrad experience.</p>
<p>Andrew Luck attended a high school in our region and his cousin attended our high school (the cousin was a NMF with my oldest child’s group). If I recall correctly, Andrew was also top ranked academically and a NMF at Stratford. He could have gotten into Stanford on academics. A great athlete and student…and obviously has his priorities in order.</p>
<p>who gives a s@it!</p>
<p>I am extremely surprised he is staying. If he would have left he would basically be the guaranteed #1 pick and be making $15 million a year. Now it’s possible he could be injured or play poorly, dropping his position in next year’s draft and decreasing his $$$.</p>
<p>A degree is nice but it’s not like he’ll even be using it, it’s not like he’s going to consider becoming an architect instead of an NFL quarterback LOL.</p>
<p>yup he was co-valedictorian (at least according to Wikipedia) of his high school.</p>
<p>^^Hamburglar, in your analysis, you only allow for getting injured or playing poorly while still at Stanford. Either of those things could just as easily happen if he left Stanford. And then, he could fall back on his degree.</p>
<p>YAYYY!! he’ll still be there and the team will still be awesome for my Freshman year :)</p>
<p>As a side note, In Economics we were talking about Andrew Luck’s choice as an example of marginal cost and marginal benefit. Marginal benefit= degree; marginal cost= possible loss as #1 draft pick status due to injury or just a bad season.</p>
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<p>the same is true of the Ogwumike sisters, the star women’s basketball players at Stanford. They went to my high school. They excelled academically (all AP’s), were class presidents, and started a charity concert called Step Up For A Reason as well as a Civil Rights Club.</p>
<p>I love how Stanford’s star athletes would have had a chance for admission even if they WEREN’T athletes.</p>
<p>Simplelife: The difference is, career ending injury this year and he is an architect for the rest of his life making like $200k a year at most. He goes to the NFL and gets injured his first year and he’s still going home with at least $50 million in his pocket GUARANTEED.</p>
<p>So it’s work for the rest of his life and not make even close to the amount of money he would have made instantaneously, or not have to work at all and be rich.</p>
<p>Hmmmmm… I think there is a LITTLE difference.</p>
<p>^Not quite, Hamburglar. Athletes of Luck’s caliber and professional potential can take out insurance policies that pay millions of dollars in the event of career-threatening injuries, and I expect he’s going to consider doing that. This isn’t as much of an either-or decision as some people believe–Luck wants it all (his degree and time at Stanford, and a pro football career), and his is almost certain to get it.</p>
<p>I think you guys are missing one key point: Yes, Andrew Luck is a very smart guy, and that’s why he wants to proactively manage not only WHEN he goes to the NFL, but also WHO he plays for. He goes to the NFL draft this year and look up what teams he’d have to play for. yeah right. Better move is to try supplemental draft or go in at a much lower pick next year so he can end up with, you guessed it, Jim Harbaugh and the Niners!</p>
<p>Zenkoan: Touche, I’ll give you that?</p>
<p>SunDiego: What? Unless his level of play declines or he is injured, he will go #1 again next year. While this is certainly possible, it’s certainly not what Luck WANTS. Maybe not wanting to live in Carolina factored into his decision, but he will not be giving
up millions of $$ on purpose… you rarely get to go where you want in the NFL. I gurantee his every intent is to go #1 in the 2012 draft.</p>
<p>I agree, Hamburglar–Luck’s prospects to still be #1 in the next year’s draft are excellent. It will be interesting to see how his play is affected by having a different coach next season at Stanford. If Luck has another amazing year comparable to this past year, it should solidify his standing in the 2012 draft even further!</p>
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True, but in the past ten years, #1 picked QBs got to go to: Atlanta, Houston, Cincinnati, San Diego (traded to New York), San Francisco, Oakland, Detroit, and St. Louis. Those are some pretty darn good destinations in terms of cities, or the teams’ histories, or the franchise stability, or the fan base, or what not. </p>
<p>No one wants to play for the Carolina Panthers. I don’t know the specifics of NFL contracts, but he’d have a minimum of five/six years in Carolina unless he demands a trade, but then he looks like a d*ck. Again who wants to play for Carolina? No one. Here are potential #1 draft pick teams next year looking for a QB:
-Denver (better)
-Buffalo (worse)
-Arizona (tossup)
-Cleveland (better)
-Oakland (better)
-San Francisco (better)
-Washington (better)
-Tennessee (tossup)
-Minnesota (longshot, but better)</p>
<p>Andrew Luck is going to make a franchise. When you do something like that, it’s good to be in cities like Chicago, New York, Boston, San Diego, Washington DC, Denver, Green Bay, Detroit, San Francisco, Dallas, Minneapolis, Indianapolis, and maybe a few others I’m forgetting.</p>