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8 years 5 months ago #8325
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"Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime." - Mark Twain "Innocents Abroad"
"Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime." - Mark Twain "Innocents Abroad"
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8 years 5 months ago #8326
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The NBA definitely needs to look at its rules--as does the NCAA. If the NBA doesn't change, then the NCAA needs to figure out how to allow players to return to college if they enter the draft and aren't drafted. Somehow high school/college baseball players are allowed to be drafted and still go on to college so it can't be too hard. There has to be a way. There are too many players who are swayed by whomever to enter the draft even though they aren't ready. When they aren't drafted, they have nowhere to go--maybe they can find work in Europe, but maybe not. Now they might not be able to play professionally nor can they return to college and pursue a degree (or at least better their game). Many of them aren't going to be able to afford college without a scholarship so they're stuck. It seems very unfair to everyone.
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8 years 5 months ago #8327
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... drafted high school baseball players are allowed to choose between going with the draft results or going to college instead because if the NCAA blocked the college option for them, college baseball would take a significant hit in terms of quality and viability. (There are FORTY ROUNDS in the MLB draft, plus compensatory picks for teams that lost free agents in the previous year, meaning over 1,200 players -- 30 teams x 40 rounds + com picks -- get drafted each year) . I have not seen any data on this, but I would not be at all surprised to learn that a lot of HS players go on to college because they are not happy with who drafted them and/or where they were drafted and want college to improve their chances 3 years down the road.
Having said that, I agree -- with only 60 picks in the NBA draft, as long as an early entrant does not hire an agent, it would be nice if he could return to school if he does not get drafted.
Doing so would make things really crazy for college programs, though.
Will X get drafted?
WIll X come back to school if he does not get drafted, or will he continue to pursue a pro career anyway?
Will there be enough scholarships to go around if X returns?
IMO the NCAA would have to allow programs "holdover" scholarships in such cases to ensure that a program can honor its promise to the new players it has already signed and still be able to allow the draft-snubbed player to return if he chooses to do so and the program has no scholarship openings available. It would be the only way to minimize the craziness for the programs.
"Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime." - Mark Twain "Innocents Abroad"
rainyhawk wrote: Somehow high school/college baseball players are allowed to be drafted and still go on to college so it can't be too hard. There has to be a way.
... drafted high school baseball players are allowed to choose between going with the draft results or going to college instead because if the NCAA blocked the college option for them, college baseball would take a significant hit in terms of quality and viability. (There are FORTY ROUNDS in the MLB draft, plus compensatory picks for teams that lost free agents in the previous year, meaning over 1,200 players -- 30 teams x 40 rounds + com picks -- get drafted each year) . I have not seen any data on this, but I would not be at all surprised to learn that a lot of HS players go on to college because they are not happy with who drafted them and/or where they were drafted and want college to improve their chances 3 years down the road.
Having said that, I agree -- with only 60 picks in the NBA draft, as long as an early entrant does not hire an agent, it would be nice if he could return to school if he does not get drafted.
Doing so would make things really crazy for college programs, though.
Will X get drafted?
WIll X come back to school if he does not get drafted, or will he continue to pursue a pro career anyway?
Will there be enough scholarships to go around if X returns?
IMO the NCAA would have to allow programs "holdover" scholarships in such cases to ensure that a program can honor its promise to the new players it has already signed and still be able to allow the draft-snubbed player to return if he chooses to do so and the program has no scholarship openings available. It would be the only way to minimize the craziness for the programs.
"Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime." - Mark Twain "Innocents Abroad"
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