Post by 00hmh on May 19, 2015 14:20:34 GMT -6
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One an done makes a joke out of calling it amateur college sports.
Forget the part about wanting to be a pro and earn a living that way, anybody can understand the athlete wanting to cash in. It's not the kids fault. Their motives are often laudable, to help family in bad financial circumstances.
Still. It is increasingly true the college year for the one in done is a fraud. Register for a minimal schedule to stay eligible one semester and plan on registering and forgetting it the second. It is mostly a basketball problem. Baseball players have a different system to deal with where they either go pro after HS or have to stay in school a few years at least. Football players are rarely ready for the NFL before they have completed school and are real Rhodes scholars by comparison to basketball, they have to improve physically and stay eligible.
Sure, all the premier athletes may get some breaks in school at all levels (some getting work done for them to stay in school and so on), but the one and done in basketball seems to be the real scandal. Especially when you get about a 100 to 1 ratio of the kids who can really make it in the NBA to those who think they can as they go that route starting in HS. No need to really be ready, I'm going pro after a year!
I'm not sure that some of the "fraud" isn't really the problem at the HS level where there is a combination of an educational scandal where many students aren't prepared for college, yet graduate, and the star athlete comes up a product of a HS eligibility scandal. Might be endemic in the South in football for example. But however it happens I have a lot of sympathy with the struggle an athlete can have in college.
Anyway, I am not optimistic the B10 AD's get anything done.
One an done makes a joke out of calling it amateur college sports.
Forget the part about wanting to be a pro and earn a living that way, anybody can understand the athlete wanting to cash in. It's not the kids fault. Their motives are often laudable, to help family in bad financial circumstances.
Still. It is increasingly true the college year for the one in done is a fraud. Register for a minimal schedule to stay eligible one semester and plan on registering and forgetting it the second. It is mostly a basketball problem. Baseball players have a different system to deal with where they either go pro after HS or have to stay in school a few years at least. Football players are rarely ready for the NFL before they have completed school and are real Rhodes scholars by comparison to basketball, they have to improve physically and stay eligible.
Sure, all the premier athletes may get some breaks in school at all levels (some getting work done for them to stay in school and so on), but the one and done in basketball seems to be the real scandal. Especially when you get about a 100 to 1 ratio of the kids who can really make it in the NBA to those who think they can as they go that route starting in HS. No need to really be ready, I'm going pro after a year!
I'm not sure that some of the "fraud" isn't really the problem at the HS level where there is a combination of an educational scandal where many students aren't prepared for college, yet graduate, and the star athlete comes up a product of a HS eligibility scandal. Might be endemic in the South in football for example. But however it happens I have a lot of sympathy with the struggle an athlete can have in college.
Anyway, I am not optimistic the B10 AD's get anything done.