https://www.stltoday.com/sports/college/mizzou/dave-matter-can-college-basketball-thrive-despite-its-talent-exodus/article_468ca0ef-e839-5a0c-988b-77c23fac7c76.html
“I don’t (worry about the college game),” Missouri’s coach said recently, “because the game is the game.”
“The unfortunate thing for some of those guys is the information they’re receiving,” Martin said. “They look up five, 10 years later and they made a decision like, ‘Wow, what did I just do?’ It’s not a piece of cake to go play in Europe. That’s hard. That’s a hard thing to do. Then they say, ‘I didn’t make it in the NBA so I’ll go to the G League and get called up.’ That’s not easy. There’s competition there. The competition is at a different level because these guys are trying to put food on the table.”