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Originally Posted by round  I agree with most of what you say in theory.... making kids go to college for one year is a joke... they take a couple easy classes the first semester and don't even have to show up to a single class second semester while there playing.... |
Hey, I'm out here in fantasy land anyway - it's all theoretical. But yeah, it isn't about college. It's not the responsibilty of colleges to teach budding NBA players how to play. They have enough trouble teaching kids to read and write.
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Originally Posted by round I'd like to see the age requirement bumped up by a year... and add an option to go straight to the farm systems... change the draft so you retain rights while there at college/minor leagues and find some way that the kids in college can get paid.... say there salary goes into a trust fund that can't touch till after there 2 years are done? |
This is off the top of my head, but I wonder how the league can get away with the age requirement they currently have. I suspect that if a player decided to challenge the restriction in court they would probably win. After all, it's not as if 18 year olds have not succeeded in the NBA before. It would seem pretty hard for the league to make a real argument that the job of player itself requires a certain age. (A farm system as you describe would get around the legal problems.)
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Originally Posted by round To many kids start in the pro's and have to be taught the most basics of concepts... I commented on Howard last week, he's just a waste of a phyical master. if he had spent two years at a solid program learning to post up, they would be a far better team right now then they would have been againt us. |
Part of the problem I think is that once players are earning millions (and being told how good they are), it's hard to get them to listen to coaching. Really, why would you? You need some system that puts everyone on a more level field and stresses learning.