Since everything in sports is being challenged in court, how is it possible for pro teams to still draft players. Why would a future pro athlete not have the same opportunity as every other professional person to pick the organization they want to work for? When you come out of college with an accounting degree you aren't forced to work for for a particular accounting firm and then have to go work in Green Bay. Not having a draft would ruin pro sports, but I'm surprised somebody hasn't challenged it.
I would love to see legislation that not only adds a salary cap, but a specified amount of money that every scholarship player could be paid. Meaning you could pay up to say $40,000 a year to each player, regardless of stars and position. This limits the headache of having to figure out who you are going to pay up for, makes life easier for coaches, and returns us to a world where recruits look at all the different aspects of choosing a college instead of just money.
Finally, somebody should sue for the right to be eligible to play in the NFL and NBA right out of high school. The NBA and MLB have created a minor league system, the NFL needs to do the same. It's time that college football quit allowing itself to be a free farm league for the NFL. How can college basketball force players to wait one year before being eligible and then the NFL forces players to wait 3 years, while baseball players can go straight into the MLB? The "one and done's" of college basketball make the whole academic argument of college sports a joke. How Duke, a supposedly elite academic institution, hasn't gotten way more criticism for using basketball mercenaries that have zero intent of ever getting a degree, I'll never know. Direct entry into professional leagues would clean up a lot of the hypocrisy that currently exists in college sports. Players that are in it 100% for the money, and could care less about academics, can end the charade of being scholar athletes and can be paid whatever the market is willing to give them. On the other hand college athletes can still get a valuable full ride scholarship and more spending money than any college student deserves, and we can preserve some level of integrity in college sports. If every 4 and 5 star went pro directly out of high school it wouldn't matter, because the playing field would be level for all schools. Fans are still going fill every SEC stadium, even if the talent level isn't quite as high, the support for college football will always be there.
I would love to see legislation that not only adds a salary cap, but a specified amount of money that every scholarship player could be paid. Meaning you could pay up to say $40,000 a year to each player, regardless of stars and position. This limits the headache of having to figure out who you are going to pay up for, makes life easier for coaches, and returns us to a world where recruits look at all the different aspects of choosing a college instead of just money.
Finally, somebody should sue for the right to be eligible to play in the NFL and NBA right out of high school. The NBA and MLB have created a minor league system, the NFL needs to do the same. It's time that college football quit allowing itself to be a free farm league for the NFL. How can college basketball force players to wait one year before being eligible and then the NFL forces players to wait 3 years, while baseball players can go straight into the MLB? The "one and done's" of college basketball make the whole academic argument of college sports a joke. How Duke, a supposedly elite academic institution, hasn't gotten way more criticism for using basketball mercenaries that have zero intent of ever getting a degree, I'll never know. Direct entry into professional leagues would clean up a lot of the hypocrisy that currently exists in college sports. Players that are in it 100% for the money, and could care less about academics, can end the charade of being scholar athletes and can be paid whatever the market is willing to give them. On the other hand college athletes can still get a valuable full ride scholarship and more spending money than any college student deserves, and we can preserve some level of integrity in college sports. If every 4 and 5 star went pro directly out of high school it wouldn't matter, because the playing field would be level for all schools. Fans are still going fill every SEC stadium, even if the talent level isn't quite as high, the support for college football will always be there.
