Is it just me, or does it seem like there are more underclassmen than ever announcing for the NFL draft this year? Put oneself in their shoes -- all that potential money plus the risk of injury in their senior seasons ... Yet, I don't know, something doesn't seem right ... Here's a partial list:

Luke Staley (BYU)
Josh Reed (LSU)
Jabar Gaffney (Florida)
Mike Pearson (Florida)
Phillip Buchanon (Miami)
Clinton Portis (Miami)
Jeremy Shockey (Miami)
T.J. Duckett (Michigan State)
Toniu Fonoti (Nebraska)
Julius Peppers (North Carolina)
Roy Williams (Oklahoma)
Donte Stallworth (Tennessee)
Jerramy Stevens (Washington)

probable:
Kelley Washington (Tennessee)

It does seem like there are more this year. You hate to see them leave early, but they have to think of their future, an injury could ruin them before they get to the NFL. The good thing with the Miami boys and others is that so many of them return to campus in the summers to finish their degrees. If you only have one year left, it isnt that hard for them to do. They cant play ball forever.
What I have a big problem with is high school boys going directly to the NBA. It just doesnt seem right to have an 18 year old with all of that pressure. The NBA sucks for allowing it.

Let's see...
What with signing bonuses, salaries, etc, even if you only make it 2 years....AND....you're a 1st round pick, you stand to collect 2+ million dollars.
Or, you can finish college, and risk injury, in which case you get no NFL, and you wind up behind a desk where you make less than 2 million dollars over the entire course of your life.
If I'm in the top 5% of the NCAA, I don't think there's any way I would pass up the opp to cash in before the injury demon pays a visit.
Make the bucks, and if you wind up with 24 broken bones after your third year, then go back to school and get the frickin' diploma.
Of course, it won't matter by that point. You won't have to work again!

I agree the money is just too much of a pull for these young man -- many who come from poverty. The chance to make the money now is much more useful to these young man then the possibility of them making it a year done the road and look at what happened to Damian Anderson from Northwestern -- he was probably a mid to late first rounder last year but he decided to come back and now he has fallen all the way to late second rounder if that. I hate to see some of these young men go but i understand why they go and probably would do the same thing if i was in their situation.