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I agree with you that the idea of one-and-dones is counterproductive to the idea of college athletics.  In particularly, I have a problem when high school players are disallowed from turning pro, but one-and-dones are allowed.  That means you get a significant fraction of freshmen who wanted to turn pro but couldn't, going to college just to bide their time to be able to enter the draft.  At least if you allow high school players to go pro you know that every freshman at least weighed the option to go pro and decided to go to college.

My preferred option is baseball.  Players can go pro out of high school or chose to go to commit to college for (at least) three years.  My second choice would be that players can go pro any time, but for the NCAA to penalize teams whose players don't graduate with loss of that scholarship for at least three years.

BC

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I agree with you that the idea of one-and-dones is counterproductive to the idea of college athletics.  In particularly, I have a problem when high school players are disallowed from turning pro, but one-and-dones are allowed.  That means you get a significant fraction of freshmen who wanted to turn pro but couldn't, going to college just to bide their time to be able to enter the draft.  At least if you allow high school players to go pro you know that every freshman at least weighed the option to go pro and decided to go to college.

My preferred option is baseball.  Players can go pro out of high school or chose to go to commit to college for (at least) three years.  My second choice would be that players can go pro any time, but for the NCAA to penalize teams whose players don't graduate with loss of that scholarship for at least three years.

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