[BostonCard]

Now, there's one thing we have to consider.  Athletes are the only college students who are forbidden from earning money for their skills.  If I'm a talented programmer I can leave school to go work at Google.  If I'm a musician, or an actor, or possess some other remarkable skill, there's nothing stopping me from pursuing a career in that at 18 or 19.  But if I'm a football player, I'm stuck.  I can't go to the NFL, even if there's a market for me.  I can't earn money from my skills.

Isn't that the NFL's problem?  I mean, in baseball, the NCAA coexists with MLB and promising baseball players have a choice of entering the draft out of high school, after their junior year, or after graduating.  Although I really don't like the "one and done" culture that it creates, in basketball, players can sign with the NBA after one year.  It's only the NFL that refuses to let anyone be drafted out of high school, most likely because why spend money developing a viable minor league when you have college football, which not only develops talent (both physical and skills development), but also gets it much more hype and publicity than would a minor league system.

But that's not really the NCAA's doing.  If there weren't draft restrictions from the NFL, it's not like the NCAA places restrictions on when people can be drafted.

BC

[BostonCard]

Now, there's one thing we have to consider.  Athletes are the only college students who are forbidden from earning money for their skills.  If I'm a talented programmer I can leave school to go work at Google.  If I'm a musician, or an actor, or possess some other remarkable skill, there's nothing stopping me from pursuing a career in that at 18 or 19.  But if I'm a football player, I'm stuck.  I can't go to the NFL, even if there's a market for me.  I can't earn money from my skills.

Isn't that the NFL's problem?  I mean, in baseball, the NCAA coexists with MLB and promising baseball players have a choice of entering the draft out of high school, after their junior year, or after graduating.  Although I really don't like the "one and done" culture that it creates, in basketball, players can sign with the NBA after one year.  It's only the NFL that refuses to let anyone be drafted out of high school, most likely because why spend money developing a viable minor league when you have college football, which not only develops talent (both physical and skills development), but also gets it much more hype and publicity than would a minor league system.

But that's not really the NCAA's doing.  If there weren't draft restrictions from the NFL, it's not like the NCAA places restrictions on when people can be drafted.

BC