Stay, go: For Jennings, is it time for a Euro trip?

Or struggles with an impatient coach?

There are countless potential problems that could damage Jennings in the eyes of scouts, and Williams knows this as well as I. That's why he said any potential jump would be well-researched, and that Jennings wouldn't necessarily go to the highest bidder if going to the highest bidder didn't make the best all-around sense.

"There might need to be an American on the team to mentor him," Williams said. "There might need to be a coach who will let him play through his mistakes."

And what about the risk involved?

"There's a risk, but there's a risk involved in anything," Williams said. "He could go to Arizona and fall on his face."

Translation: Even a solid SAT score probably won't end Jennings' interest in going overseas, earning a substantial paycheck, bucking the system and proving that he isn't obligated to play along with the NBA's game to enhance a prospect's marketability by forcing them into college. That's what the age-limit rule is about, after all, about ensuring there are as many recognizable stars entering the league each year as possible, and do you think Derrick Rose would've been anything close to this marketable if he had been in the draft following a high school state title instead of a Final Four?

Of course not.

So the NBA wants Jennings in the Pac-10.

But Jennings might be more interested in making money now while other likely one-and-done prospects like DeMar DeRozan watch everything they do at Southern California and hope that a free meal or shirt or TV doesn't bring NCAA investigators to campus. For those reasons -- plus a few others -- it's easy to see why Europe is an attractive option for a sure-bet professional. But either way it seems Arizona fans will have to wait this out past Thursday, because even a sufficient SAT score isn't likely to bring Jennings any closer to deciding where he'll spend the next year.