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cpayne5:
As soon as a kid signs with a team, he has to follow all the rules of the team. As long as he has no contract, he can pick and choose what he will be doing with the team and what he won't. That is part of the delay in signing on.
In addition, the negotiation process is kinda like being recruited when the kid was deciding where to go to college. It's nice to have people fawning all over you and telling you what a great player you are and how much they want you. That makes you feel good. As soon as you sign, your position coach is telling you that you are only slightly more valuable than a sack of wet goat sh*t. So there's another incentive to sign on later instead of earlier.
Big time college athletes are not without sources of funds. How do you think that these kids drive their Jags and Hummers while they are still in school? That's why the "eviction story" was so strange with regard to Taylor. He has/had access to money sufficient to pay off any "back rent" he might have had on his college apartment.
By any standard you'd like to offer, I am far more pleased with Sean Taylor's behavior than Jeff Allison's. Miami Marlins' fans probably would like to hang this guy up by his thumbs...
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