Really felt like in retrospect everyone would've come to grips that any criticism of Chris Paul for leaving after his sophomore year was misguided. Guess not.
Paul left WF, and was not only a first round pick, but was the 4th pick in the draft. Then as a rookie, he averaged 16 ppg 8 apg and 5 rpg and was the NBA rookie of the year. Chris Paul was ready to be a pro; more ready than anyone else in the draft, and when you can make life-changing money, you have to go for it.
As for his "commitment to WF", Chris gave WF 2 years, and has remained faithful to the school and to the W-S Community after leaving for the NBA. While no one here knows the exact communications between Skip and Chris at all relevant times, I have little doubt that by the end of Chris' sophomore year, when it became apparent that CP3 would be a lottery pick, Skip knew Chris had to go. Heck, let's not kid ourselves, if the NBA had been offering Skip a life-changing contract in 2005, Skip would've gone. While there may be some truth that heading into CP3's sophomore year that he had no intention of entering the draft, circumstances change and they did as, by the end of his sophomore season, CP3 was going to be top 5 draft pick; sorry, but CP3 was not and should not have stayed at WF and waited a year to get paid because Skip failed to recruit a PG (that's on Skip; not CP3). Amazing to me that looking back at the way the draft panned out, and the way CP3's career panned out, including his NBA rookie year, that any WF fan would be anything other than happy and proud for Chris Paul. WF did right by CP3, and he did right by WF.