As much as I love Johnny and I'm sure his mother is a great woman, every point she made was directly related to her and being worried about her son not being ready. Taking a job from someone else? That's essentially the business in a nutshell. The best players play. Getting stronger? I'm sure that can be done more efficiently with pro trainers. Degree? That's always an option later down the road. Graduation picture? What, seriously?
At some point, a prospect of his pedigree has to make the next step regardless of his size, holding him back could potentially cause stagnation, which hurts his chances of being successful. Fact is is he needs to be playing pro, more games with a higher level of competition is ideal for his stage of development, and the pros certainly outweigh the cons in my opinion. Really hope Johnny makes the right decision here and makes the next step, it's disappointing how everything seemed to be pointing in that direction up until an article gets released that really puts that in jeopardy.
If it helps at all, I'll take a graduation picture of Johnny myself. Free of charge.
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