Easy- the NCAA exploits minority athletes and then discards them.
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God, I fricking hate Democrats. Everything is an issue that later becomes federal law.
Wait a minute. She’s from Missouri. Isn’t that where Ferguson is?
Colleges have usurped the role that should be filled by paying minor league teams. Why on earth would the top talent stay at a college that doesn’t pay them and loses them millions in opportunity cost.
An earlier thread, different source if anyone is interested in reading the comments:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3276691/posts
US Senator Claire McCaskill Rips Duke University For
‘One and Done’ Collegiate Basketball Players ^
F her!
I saw a t shirt that is correct: ‘NCAA screwing athletes since 1900’.
McCaskill once again shows how dumb she is and she must really have a dumb staff too. The NCAA has no such rule as the one and done rule. The NBA collective bargaining agreement says that an NBA team may not hire someone until his high school graduation class (whether they graduate or not) is one year past graduation or the the person is a certain age. The NBA collective bargaining agreement causes players who otherwise would jump to the NBA to have to go to college or play overseas or play in the D-League for a year.
In fact, colleges would love to have student athletes stay the full four years. The NBA would not go of that because basketball skill peaks at around 25 and the longer a player stays in school the few years in the NBA before the erosion of their skills begins.
I am sick of hearing the NCAA schools criticized for the problem of players leaving school early! If the NBA did not recruit players who have not had at least three years of college, this would not happen! In the "olden days", it was rare for a college player to leave school early at all, and, if so, they usually did so no sooner than after their junior year. The ACC player of the year last year, T.J. Warren, was an NCSU sophomore and he went to the NBA. Their coaches leave the decision up to the player and Coach Gottfried could not advise T.J. to stay in school when the NBA was offering him millions. Had he stayed in school, he could have been injured or had a less outstanding year. The money was just too tempting for a young man who grew up in Durham where Duke is located, but chose NC State because his father played there in the late seventies. Another point is that these well-spoken young Duke players have the drive and intelligence to complete their degree should they not have success in the NBA.
By the way, anyone who actually watched the game knows that the missed out of bounds call at the end of the game did NOT "give" the game to Duke. The call on the floor was that the ball was touched last by Wisconsin and the refs must see irrefutable evidence to overturn it. The TV replay DID show that the fingernail of a Duke player did touch the ball last, but TV viewers forget that the refs do not have access to all of the replays that are shown on TV. The refs did not see that particular one, so they had to let the call stand. Duke won by 5 points, even though they missed a couple of ill-advised quick layups in the final minute. Wisconsin would've had to inbound the ball and go down and score and Duke would have had to take those same bad shots for the call to have made a difference in the outcome. It's all about one's perspective!
Easiest way to solve one and done, and others who leave before graduating, is to just take one scholarship away from school for each player who leaves early and hold that take away until the year player would have graduated.
A partial solution would be that once a player commits to a school, unless he transfers to a another school, his slot is filled for 4 years. If he does a one and done that slot sits empty for 3 years.