I'm sure if the NCAA investigated every champion in every sport over the last century they would be compelled to vacate a majority of the championships that have been awarded.
Your point? Just let it slide because of some vague suspicions?
but I also do not agree with forcing them through three years of amaturism before they are draft eligible.
All these kids know how to do is play football,
The best baseball players can enter the draft and at worst play in the minors right out of high school. The best basketball players only need wait a year before going to the NBA. Soccer has it right, a 16 year old kid can be paid to play if he is good enough.
No, my point is the system is busted. Amaturism is an archaic ideal that should have died during the cold war. I don't agree with paying players, but I also do not agree with forcing them through three years of amaturism before they are draft eligible. All these kids know how to do is play football, and not letting them earn money to do it is just stupid. The best baseball players can enter the draft and at worst play in the minors right out of high school. The best basketball players only need wait a year before going to the NBA. Soccer has it right, a 16 year old kid can be paid to play if he is good enough.
The NFL needs to upgrade it's old-fashioned player development system. Football is the only sport in America without some form of minor league system and it is also the most corrupt sport in the NCAA.
That's a rule the NFL has. Perhaps the CFL, UFL, or Arena league doesn't. I'm not sure, to be honest.
That said, I think it's a neccessary rule as it's a rarity that 19 year old kids can match up physically with the players in the NFL. They need those years not only to develop their skills, but to also grow into their bodies.
Then "forcing" them to stay in college and become marketable (you know, with a degree) is a good thing.
None of those sports are nearly as physical as the NFL.
Poker players have to wait until their 21 to gamble. All they know how to do is play poker. That rule is garbage. Kids of all ages should be able to gamble. amirite?
How is encouraging kids to earn a degree in case the NFL thing doesn't work out acting corrupt?
Hell, isn't board, books and education payment enough?
The last thing the NFL needs to do is copy the development system of inferior sports leagues. No league is run better than the NFL.
There's a reason why rookies can make a big impact and the NFL draft is such a big event as a result.
Yes, the NFL dumps all of their player development responsibilities on the NCAA and does not have to pay a dime for it. It is a system that will not change because the NFL gets so much out of it. I would like to see semi-pro teams become a viable path to the NFL but there is not enough money to go that route.
No it isn't. Most of them don't learn anything and only waste money and education that could be better used on someone else.
Each sport has it's own physical requirements, some kids might be NFL ready coming out of high school just like LeBron and Kobe were ready for the NBA.
Most kids don't fit that mold and need development. The current development system is great for the NFL but shit for the kids.
You are trying to change the argument. The kids need development, the question is how to provide it.
College football has proven adequate in developing players, but it is thick with corruption because the NFL bound players want to get paid. The best way to get over the corruption in NCAA sports is to separate sports from college and remove amateurism. There are models of player development that work without the NCAA, such as the minor league baseball system and soccer youth academies. The problem for the NFL is the money required to invest in those development systems.
Corruption could be reduced by providing an alternative to the NCAA for high school graduates who want to join the NFL but would prefer getting paid instead of having a free education. How many of the 50+ underclassmen that declare for the draft each year actually return to school to finish their degree? It could also be reduced by eliminating amateurism and allowing them to earn money by participating in spring/summer events.
And your doctor analogy was dumb. Comparing athletes to a profession that requires 8 years of school and 3+ years of residency (AKA OJT employee development) is just as bad as comparing poker to football.
How the players are developed is not the responsibility of the NFL. The current system in place works well for them.
Corruption in the NCAA is not an NFL problem. It's an NCAA problem.
Therefore, there is no reason to change the draft requirement that a player be three years removed from high school prior to being draft eligible.
These guys aren't forced into the NCAA. Again, they can enter the UFL, CFL, or Arena League. They can spend three years going to Jason Wittens football camp, for all I care.
My doctor analogy was only as dumb as your notion of revolutionizing incredibly successful leagues and associations currently in place to cater immature greed and ignorance.
My doctor analogy makes sense because in order to be a doctor, you have to have certain skills. You agree that players need to be developed.
Doctors don't get paid to go to college. Why should football players?
Your stance is that established rules and guidelines be damned... these kids should be able to go pro and make money because they don't care about education and playing is all they're good at.
Does that about sum it up?