So children who we as society have dictated are not mature enough to make other legal decisions, like drink a beer, are mature enough to make that life altering decision? I don't think I could disagree with this post anymore. Especially the "people around the player". How many of those people are risking their future? None. They are putting themselves in a position to do nothing but gain. If the kid fails, they jump on the next up and comer. The market will work itself out? So how many kids who will ruin their life will that take? These kids are 17 years old. I remember how I knew everything when I was 17. And now I know how stupid I was.
I can see NBA teams adding a G league offset to draft picks...such as contract value decreases to XYZ if player not called up for main team. No concern for development, only to protect themselves if pick a bust or needs more time until contribute. Maybe used as compromise? I guess players now can sign 2way contracts. I am not up to date so much.
I remember when we were courting de sousa. I also remember hearing rumors of a payout during his recruitment too. Looks like there was some truth to that.
I don't believe they are seriously considering 4 years of college. But I do believe one year of college is better than 0 years of college. If you want to start talking about the quality of that year of college, well that is on the university that allows that behavior, not the system.If you really think that a vast majority of the young adults that are seriously in consideration for being drafted right out of high school (and, as i stated, that's something they'll know well before they declare for the draft) are seriously interested/motivated in spending 4 yrs in college to get a degree, then there's no point in having this conversation.
yes there will be some situations where the player is on the border and/or will take an ill-advised risk (which, as I said in my previous post, they'll have plenty of opportunities to get a sense of whether they are a serious candidate before they declare). But at least that's a choice he will be making and it'll be lot less frequent than you're making it out to be. I don't think it's any better to force a player to go to college for a year, risk injury, create perverse incentives in college, and potentially lose the opportunity to make a living from their talent just because the NBA can get a free year of evaluation and have people believe it's "Good for the player".
It's not like there's a history of littered stories of high schoolers declaring for the draft pre-2006 (though i'm sure it happened sometimes). Plus the system has improved since then.
The NBA has every right to do what it wants. But to pretend like it truly has the player's needs at heart (or even tangentially has the player's interests in sight) when there's so many counterfactuals around it makes it BS, imo.
Let's not even get into the wasted scholarships going to players that have no intention of completing their degrees.
Why should the rule exist? That is a good question. Why was it originally put in place? I do not know the answer to those questions. I can speculate the players union pushed this in to protect those veterans from losing a roster spot. The NBA possibly did it to protect their product on the court. To many young men who have the physical tools but not the basketball savvy can make the game look more "one on one" and less attractive to their audience. That is just me spit balling.
When you say no market, do you mean no fanbase/interest to support it?
....for no money, while the people who ran this "level" made billions of dollars.
I mean kinda, right? We as fans are loyal to our school, not a recruit. Not sure in what percentile I fall, but college basketball is one of my favorite 3ish sports (highly dependent on time of season and quality of Illini basketball). I wont even watch Bulls basketball (occasionally would when they were good, but that beside the point). The NBA is of little interest to me, as would the Windy City Bulls or whatever G league team I would choose to root for. Dont ask me why, someone much smarter can probably tell you the psychology behind rooting for a team from your school.
The models and goals of College sports compared to minor league sports are just different, it's hard to compare them in the way you are. Also the ways fans view college/minor leauge teams is vastly different. I do think done the right way the G-Leauge could make a lot more than they currently are.
