Clemson Baseball Draftees - Parker signs for $1.4 million

Would he be eligible to play immediately or would he have to wait a year after his transfer. Also does he lose a year of eligibility if he does indeed leave.

wouldn’t he have to wait a year to play after his transfer? Does he lose a year of eligibility?

Of course it’s a risk-reward gamble (of getting drafted by the NFL) and you have to factor in love of football versus baseball versus money. But from a strict financial standpoint, I’d say that Parker’s parents blew the negotation. He should have taken the $2.25M that the Rockies (supposedly) offered him in July to play baseball exclusively.
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The 2011 NFL-draft class for QBs is reportedly deep, with guys like Locker, Ponder, Mallet, Luck, Brantley, Pryor, et al. But even if it weren’t deep, as a 6’ QB, Parker would be highly unlikely to get drafted by the NFL as a senior— let alone as a redshirt sophmore or junior. Over the last 4 years and 50 QBs drafted, only 2 QBs under 6’2" were drafted to play QB. (Though 2 more were drafted to play WR.) Both of those QBs were stellar SENIORS who played on prominent, national championship teams: Colt McCoy 6’1" senior and all-time-winningest college QB (3rd round), and 6’ Heisman winner, Troy Smith (5th round). So the chances are awfully small that Parker will get drafted as a sophmore (or junior) from a team like Clemson, with no truly proven receivers. To get drafted in 2011, Parker would pretty much have to turn in a Heisman performance. It’s possible, just highly unlikely.

Right or wrong (and despite an occassional short-NFL-QB success story, like 6’ Drew Brees) the NFL values height. So they draft guys like 6’3" Keith Null of West Texas A&M (who? where?), over shorter stars like 6’ 1" senior Chase Daniel, who went undrafted and landed on an NFL practice squad for $91k/yr, despite his brilliant college career at Missouri.

I sincerely hope that I’m wrong and that Parker wins a Heisman, gets drafted by the NFL, and makes gobs of money.