UF QB Jeff Driskell signs with Red Sox

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HAHA....interesting. Ending his college career in FB. I bet Muschamp is pi$$ed
 
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i think he can still play Football. Unless for some odd reason you cant in the SEC. but theres been several guys do both.
 
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He is only ineligible for baseball, not football (he wasn't playing baseball at UF anyway, though).
 
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Isn't Brent Brewer the same way haha. Funny how people jumped out to comment saying he's ineligible when we have a player that played in the minors as well
 
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Major League Baseball on the other hand doesn’t require that you “ask” to be in the draft. If you meet MLB’s draft eligibility rules,you are available for selection. The fact that being drafted by an MLB team is not an amateurism violation makes sense. Otherwise MLB teams could ruin the amateur status of student-athletes without any action by the student-athlete.

It’s what happens next in baseball that creates problems. After being drafted,student-athletes attempt to negotiate a professional contract. They often hire professional advisors to assist in this process. These advisors are almost always agents acting in an advising capacity,with fee structures identical to player representation agreements.

Major League Soccer further breaks the logic by flipping the draft and the negotiation in the league’s single-entity structure. Underclassmen first attempt to negotiate a contract, and if successful they are entered into the available player pool in the MLS SuperDraft.

To summarize,it is a violation to go through a draft if you decided you want to be in it. But it isn’t a violation in some cases if you are drafted and then attempt to negotiate the greatest possible compensation for your athletic skills. And it isn’t a violation to attempt that negotiation in order to enter the draft.

The fact that this is unfair to some student-athletes is secondary. Most important is that entering a professional draft is not sufficient evidence that you want to give up your collegiate eligibility. Entering a draft and deciding any contract offered would not be worth leaving college is no more or less an indication of a student-athlete’s intent to professionalize themselves than deciding a contract offer is not sufficient to leave college and enter the draft in the first place.


Here is a little piece about draft status for mlb players from the ncaa. Wish people would do their homework before the post something
 
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@jeffdriskel: Yes I signed with the Red Sox. Nothing changes. I am still a full time student athlete at UF, fully committed to playing football. #GoGators
 
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Eligibility isn't my forte but I didn't know you could play one sport in college and have a current pro in another. Pretty fishy to me. I'm more a inside recruiting and football guy. I was wrong idc to get some heck for it
 
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matts42012 said:
Eligibility isn't my forte but I didn't know you could play one sport in college and have a current pro in another. Pretty fishy to me. I'm more a inside recruiting and football guy. I was wrong idc to get some heck for it
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It's so fishy it's happened several other times.

In fact it's funny that you're so surprised by all of this.
 
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Brewer and Washington situations were slightly different. They played pro ball then came back to college. They were not under contract any more. I realize this kinda deal happens pretty often. Although you would think the ncaa wouldn't wanna have you under a professonal contract and still play college ball
 
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