I was told in high school that the last game during your senior year stays with you forever, which is true.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
When I retired in 2002 I had retired to stay home with my family and didn't necessarily think my playing days were over.
It's just like high school. If you're a freshman or a sophomore, it's hard to tell the seniors who've been through two, three, playoff games what to do.
The fact is, when I was 15 and a sophomore at high school, I played on the varsity baseball team for the college.
As you get older you play in more important games and that is when you start thinking about what will happen if you win or lose.
High school isn't necessarily the best time of your life.
This is a game that's going to play as long as you're playing it. It's never going to end. It'll go until I retire, and when the next person has the job, they'll be on it too.
A freshman has only about 25% of his degree completed. They go off to play professional basketball, and to assume they will come back and get the degree done five, six, seven years later, I don't see that happening.
No matter how many years you play, it's always something new and exciting. It's sports, you never know what may happen.
You think school ends when it ends, but it doesn't.
In sports... you play from the time you're eight years old, and then you're done forever.