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WSJ: Colleges Push Pros to Change Their Draft Rules

PostPosted: Thu Oct 03, 2013 5:41 pm
by Water Pony
October 1, 2013

College Sports Goes on the Offensive

"As the NCAA faces the greatest existential peril in its history and scrambles for fundamental reforms by next summer, its power brokers are floating a radical solution for saving college sports: expanding professional sports."

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142 ... 49934.html

Re: WSJ: Colleges Push Pros to Change Their Draft Rules

PostPosted: Thu Oct 03, 2013 5:51 pm
by Charleston Pony
this has been the 'no-brainer" solution for years, i.e., for the NFL and NBA to offer kids the same option that baseball players have, i.e., go to college or go sign a contract to play professionally...in the minor leagues.

it's been so obvious for years that we all know the reason it hasn't happened. Now sit back and watch the hypocritical "educators" debate this. They have gotten too comfortable with the revenue that semi-pro college football and basketball programs are producing