The year was 1966, when the then-15-year-old high school sophomores had just nabbed a record contract after winning a battle of the bands at a Des Plaines drive-in theater.
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Chris Placek,
Chicago Tribune,
27 June 2026
Yes, college players would be eligible to be drafted one year earlier, as sophomores instead of as juniors.
Truell and his future partners — Sualeh Asif, Arvid Lunnemark and Aman Sanger — were all undergraduates at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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Bloomberg,
Mercury News,
17 June 2026
Goldman Sachs’ Pierfrancesco Mei believes this is evidence that undergraduates are changing their behavior to avoid career paths most easily destroyed by AI.
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