ArvadaHawk
Well-Known Member
There’s a reason why illegal money and cheating has crept into college sports. You can’t have a billion dollar corporation making 100% of its money off of kids who don’t get paid other than a scholarship and expect it to stay clean. If you think it can be then your head’s in the sand.
People who think like that also think you can get crack and meth off the streets by making laws tougher. It’s a farcical argument with no regard for reality.
The one and done rule is 99% of the problem. We’re not talking about the Jordan Bohannons of the world, we’re talking about the players who would be skipping college anyway. Let players skip college altogether if they want. We live in a free market economy, if you’re 18 and have a skill other people want to pay you shitloads of money to do, why shouldn’t you be able to? Because ArvadaHawk wants to be nostalgic and control what kids do when they graduate high school? Would you tell a gifted guitarist that he either has to go to college or wait two years to go on tour because you want to watch him play the bar scene for free, because by god, that's the way it should be?
Society moves on, and this isn’t 1959 anymore, man. With the amount of money being made off their likenesses there’s no reason a kid shouldn’t be able to be able to market himself. Remove the one and done rule and allow players to make money off their autograph/name/likeness, and you won’t have near the shit sandwich you do now. But you won’t be in favor of that because you’d feel like you were watching junior league ball since the best players would skip it. Your opinion is totally selfish, by the way. You want to see kids forced to play ball in the NCAA for your own enjoyment, not because of some righteous or moral reason. Be honest.
Did you feel college basketball suffered when Bryant and James went pro?
and if you think kids aren't getting compensated, then you've got your head in the sand. Tuition, books, room & board, a free chance to reach a professional league to become an instant millionaire. Athletes have access to far superior medical treatment (beyond treating injuries), health diets, and on, and on, and on.
Hey, don't go to college on a scholarship and just try out for a pro team, right after high school, until you make one.