I may be young, but I’m not stupid… You’re asking a player who has a chance to make money he never had before … a young, desperate black male … to stay at a school that can’t really help me out as much as I can help myself? That’s ludicrous.
This statement from BOB appears in print on Dec. 21, 1991, Section 1, Page 31 of the National edition with the headline: SPORTS PEOPLE: COLLEGE FOOTBALL; Whitfield to Turn Pro.