NCAA Shortens Period for NBA Prospects to Return to School - Link

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excellent move. Allows the college coach to make necessary changes to his squad earlier.
 
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VOLS85 said:
excellent move. Allows the college coach to make necessary changes to his squad earlier.
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Yeah, because we should be more concerned with helping the coaches than we are the players. Just more anti-athlete idiocy from the 'AA.
 
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Maybe they can get the players to head overseas in middle school.
 
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They made a good call... Now coaches will have more time to know what kind of team they will have back for the following year.
 
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hatvol96 said:
Yeah, because we should be more concerned with helping the coaches than we are the players. Just more anti-athlete idiocy from the 'AA.
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I feel so terrible for those 'students' who are weighing whether they'll make 5 or 10 million by staying or leaving. College basketball and football are an operation now, whether you want to accept it or not. They generate revenue. I'm sure you'll find something negative to retort with, but that comes as no surprise, because that's what you do...yawn
 
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Zasnow said:
They made a good call... Now coaches will have more time to know what kind of team they will have back for the following year.
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Yeah, thank God we got the poor, mistreated coaches some help. Way to go, 'AA.
 
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This is dumb. In my view, the NBA should be setting the deadline; not the NCAA.
 
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VOLS85 said:
I feel so terrible for those 'students' who are weighing whether they'll make 5 or 10 million by staying or leaving. College basketball and football are an operation now, whether you want to accept it or not. They generate revenue. I'm sure you'll find something negative to retort with, but that comes as no surprise, because that's what you do...yawn
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Think about the logic you just used:

You belittled athletes for wanting to make money and then basically said it was a good decision because college sports are about making money.
 
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GAVol said:
Think about the logic you just used:

You belittled athletes for wanting to make money and then basically said it was a good decision because college sports are about making money.
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Revenue they generate on the backs of guys who get comparatively nothing for their work.
 
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GAVol said:
Think about the logic you just used:

You belittled athletes for wanting to make money and then basically said it was a good decision because college sports are about making money.
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I want the institution to do well, and this helps it to do so. Forgive me.
 
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VOLS85 said:
I want the institution to do well, and this helps it to do so. Forgive me.
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But don't you think it's a little disingenuous for the school to make money on the backs of athletes while limiting their ability to get paid for their talent?
 
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GAVol said:
But don't you think it's a little disingenuous for the school to make money on the backs of athletes while limiting their ability to get paid for their talent?
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I don't think this limits their ability at all. Workouts have occurred, analyses are in, playing it out until the middle of june is unnecessary. I don't disagree with the fact that the NBA should be making the rules, however. I just think this is a good idea.

I do think it's a little disingenuous for universities to make money off their student athletes at all, but that's become a common reality.
 
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hatvol96 said:
Revenue they generate on the backs of guys who get comparatively nothing for their work.
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These athletes get a free education provided by the universities which leads to a degree and a future for most who would have had none if not for their athletic ability. I do not feel sorry for the athletes, just the ones who are constantly told they can make it to the professional level but cant and then do nothing with their FREE education.
 
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fromtheparkinglot said:
These athletes get a free education provided by the universities which leads to a degree and a future for most who would have had none if not for their athletic ability. I do not feel sorry for the athletes, just the ones who are constantly told they can make it to the professional level but cant and then do nothing with their FREE education.
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I'm quite certain the players will gladly pay for the education they receive if the universities start cutting them checks for their fair share of the revenue they produce.
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fromtheparkinglot said:
These athletes get a free education provided by the universities which leads to a degree and a future for most who would have had none if not for their athletic ability. I do not feel sorry for the athletes, just the ones who are constantly told they can make it to the professional level but cant and then do nothing with their FREE education.
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There are plenty of people that produce exactly zero revenue for a university that get a FREE education, too.
 
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hatvol96 said:
I'm quite certain the players will gladly pay for the education they receive if the universities start cutting them checks for their fair share of the revenue they produce.
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Don't disagree really, but how long would it takes some of them to say, I don't want to be forced to pay for an education that I care nothing about. Would that cause a problem? I don't know, I guess in some ways it wouldn't really matter.
 
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kxtop said:
NCAA has voted to shorten the period to require those players having a change of heart and returning to school to do so next year by May 8 rather than the current mid June date. This is a great rule change, the players pretty much know by early May where they will shake out in the draft. Players need to stay in school anyway.
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Why do they "need" to stay in school?

If I had been offered a $70K programming job when I was a sophmore or junior in college, no way would I stay in school.
 
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The rule wasn't broken, why fix it? There's plenty of other things that should have been changed before this.
 
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