My point was that he wasn't at risk of ending up screwed even if he flamed out, because his signing bonus from the Yankees would have set him up for life anyway. He was being paid up-front decades worth of work from a good job that could be gotten with a college degree. So he's not as good of an example of as someone who would turn down like, 500k, who could not only get the insurance of a degree, but possibly be in line for a much bigger bonus coming out of college.