[SammyKid11]

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Although some of these guys haven't gotten in legal trouble. T-Mac is an egomaniacal cancer who hasn't won a playoff series. Jermaine O'Neal needlessly punched a fan in last years brawl, and Kobe has had no legal or character problems recently.
Just because they were sucessful out of high school doesn't mean going to college would not benefit them.

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I'm gonna say this one more time. HS draftees...lower percentage of off-court problems than college draftees. What about the evidence presently available leads you to believe that college is somehow a behavior-improving mechanism?

And come on...you're citing T-Mac's EGO and losing in the playoffs as a need for college? If he'd gone to school and been worshipped for a couple years, his EGO would be lower and the Rockets would have beaten the Mavericks in Game 7 last year?

Same with Jermaine O'Neal. Ron Artest went to college at St. John's...why didn't his college experience keep him from doing what he did?

And Kobe? Well, let's forget about the fact that his case was thrown out of court for lack of evidence (and also not let this thread turn into a Kobe thread). What about college do you think would have kept him from cheating on his wife, man? He's in a strange town, there's a beautiful woman...and what, he remembers what his freshman English teacher said about Shakespearean adultery in Henry VIII? Come on.

No causality exists between college and better citizenship. Quit pretending that it does.