Whether it's better or not is not the point.
The kid is going to get his high school diploma, has already stated his intention to do that. He's going to be making six figures for at minimum a 2-year deal in, most likely, Spain, the same league that made Rubio the apparent No.2 prospect for this year's draft.
If this works for him, and I don't see why it won't, he'll return likely a more professional player than his counterparts who had to maintain some kind of pretense of going to class, and understand the ins and outs of playing in a professional league. He'll also have the kind of money to where he'll be able to pay for college himself, especially if he is a top-5 pick in 2012.
Everyone's got to make the right choice for themselves. I guess it's a cultural thing, but where I grew up, colleges were institutions of learning, not promotional tools for professional sports leagues.
And the others, Ryan, are some of the best professional soccer players in the world, all of whom not only started playing for not only their clubs, but in some instances their countries, before they turned 18.
