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RE: Is it time to restore freshmen ineligibility rule?
(10-03-2017 09:24 AM)ken d Wrote: I think a lot of college sports fans would see it that way, too. And maybe this isn't expressed as "freshman" eligibility. Maybe the requirement is set that an athlete must have completed 30 credits in required courses with at least a 2.5 GPA before he can compete. Then you can scrap all your rules about SAT scores and partial qualifiers. Make the President of the school personally certify the student's eligibility.
Let's say a bright high schooler, with some advanced placement credits, enrolls early (the spring semester). With AP, plus two full semesters and summer school, he could be eligible to play as soon as his fall semester grades are certified. These aren't the kids who are perceived as the problem. It is the marginal (or below marginal) student who is going to do the minimum necessary to be eligible for his first season and then bolt for the pros who is the problem.
With the current salary scale for the D league (or whatever it's called now) as a viable option for first year players, I can't see any legal challenge that could be successfully brought.
From the NBA's point of view, the one and done rule is as much about protecting the owners from their own foolishness as anything. If they can draft right out of high school, they will make a lot more mistakes, and expensive ones. We've seen that time and again. They won't pass on that 6'-10" player who isn't ready yet because of his "potential". The NCAA doesn't owe them anything.
I don't think the salary scale even matters actually.
People make the argument that it's unfair for the NBA to disallow kids to enter the league out of high school and that it's subsequently inhumane or some nonsense to "force" them to go to college. I can certainly understand why some high school kids might not like the rule, but so what? No one is entitled to the job they want when they want it. If kids don't want to sign an agreement to abide by amateurism in college then they don't have to do it.
I would love for someone to give me a job posting on a message board all day for $3 million, but I don't think anyone's going to give it to me. Same difference...I'm not legally entitled to a job if no one wants to give it to me.
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