‘What was the key to your decision to leave school early and enter the draft last April? “Having the opportunity to compete at this level and that has always been my dream. And we had a great season last year, so if I would have come back I wouldn’t have had a chance to improve my draft stock. All the guys I was used to playing with the last three years were leaving, so if I went back it would have been me and only me. It would have been good to be a leader on that team, be a captain, but I wanted to go out with the guys I came in with.”‘