How about you can draft a player as a freshman or sophomore but they don't play for you until 4 year

[MarionBarberThe4th]

The player would be able to enter the draft at any year of school. A team can draft him or her if they choose. But they'll be using cap money for them. It wouldn't take a roster spot tho. The player can practice with the team in a limited capacity when school is out.

I believe this would make the draft more exciting. It would pay student athletes. It would make guys more mature and less likely to commit crimes. It would get more eyeballs on NCAA as people would get some players to watch with an interest as they'd be future cowboys. It gives players more salary for the hits they're accumulating and may help with the CTE issue.

 

[Deep_Freeze]

Be fun, but the NCAA won't put up with players still in college getting paid. Football is also different than other sports, players have to be physically mature enough to take the beating they will get in the NFL. With the Browns trade, people are starting to think basketball, but this ain't basketball. In basketball and baseball, the players have to make a choice between college and pro, even if it happened it would probably go the same way.

Just won't happen, eliminate the money aspect would increase the possibility though.

 

[Bohuntr97]

The NCAA will never allow atheletes to be compensated. The IRS would consider them at as employees and not amateurs. The IRS would come after income tax, Social Security, Medicaire, state and federal unemployment taxes. The value of their scholarship could be taxed too. But the biggie is that the NCAA, athletic departments, bowl games, the NCAA tourney would probably loose their 501(c)(3) tax exempt status. Donors to the univerities also would no longer be able to deduct their donations. Tax-free bonds could no longer be issued to build or repair facilites.

Here's a pretty good article that explains it better than I can.

http://businessofcollegesports.com/2011/08/10/why-college-athletes-will-never-be-paid/

 

[Sarge]

I hate the offseason.

 

[AzorAhai]

They would have to be truly transcendent player for a team to spend a draft pick on a player that's a freshman only to have to wait 3-4 years and hope they both develop and stay healthy. Just pay the kids some money in college. The legit way so these kids are making deals with agents and getting paid under the table by alumni.

 

[MarionBarberThe4th]

I hate the offseason.

Yea it sucks people talk sports and stuff you're always so fun sarge full of zest and levity

 

[MarionBarberThe4th]

They would have to be truly transcendent player for a team to spend a draft pick on a player that's a freshman only to have to wait 3-4 years and hope they both develop and stay healthy. Just pay the kids some money in college. The legit way so these kids are making deals with agents and getting paid under the table by alumni.

You didn't really offer a con to this. You just said many teams may pass . Well yea. That's why many players wouldn't come out early. As they'd rather be a first rounder in two years than a 5th this year. But some players would still come out Bc they want the money now.

This is America and this way they're no longer slave workers for the NCAA. And it's just the freedom of more options.

 

[Alexander]

Even if this happened, the Workman's Comp issues would be staggering.

Say a player tears a knee up in one of these little limited practices? Then the team is on the hook for that.

So, where does that leave us?

Oh.

 

[Setackin]

Anyone else notice the dumbest ideas are thought of after midnight and before six....

 

[TheRomoSexual]

How about...we keep the system the way it is now, because it's perfect.

 

[Sarge]

Anyone else notice the dumbest ideas are thought of after midnight and before six....

 

[Sarge]

How about...we keep the system the way it is now, because it's perfect.

Makes good sense to me.

 

[Eddie]

Once they register for the draft, they are no longer eligible to return to play again. Sorry.

 

[Alexander]

Once they register for the draft, they are no longer eligible to return to play again. Sorry.

Not true. You can draft a player as long as the NFL declares them eligible for the draft. If they don't want to play, they enter the next draft pool.

Happened when we drafted C Matt Darwin, he didn't come to terms, then the Eagles drafted him the next year.

 

[EST_1986]

I hate the offseason.

Baseball is on so there's a 4 hour block of napping for you

 

[EST_1986]

Once they register for the draft, they are no longer eligible to return to play again. Sorry.

pretty sure he is suggesting we change those rules

 

[TheMarathonContinues]

They would have to be truly transcendent player for a team to spend a draft pick on a player that's a freshman only to have to wait 3-4 years and hope they both develop and stay healthy. Just pay the kids some money in college. The legit way so these kids are making deals with agents and getting paid under the table by alumni.

Right. People were pissed we drafted Jaylon. Can you imagine the outcry on waiting for a player 4 years later?

 

[John813]

So, something like the NHL/MLB?

Doubt any team would want to take a risk on drafting a freshman/soph and wait to see how they develop with their college.

How does it help the CTE issue? Will players sit out more games, or go out of bounce in the NCAA to avoid hits, cause they got drafted/paid?

 

[MarionBarberThe4th]

How about...we keep the system the way it is now, because it's perfect.

Absolutely perfect! Except how the NCAA is about to be sued for unfair labor laws

 

[MarionBarberThe4th]

Right. People were pissed we drafted Jaylon. Can you imagine the outcry on waiting for a player 4 years later?

Right. So you don't draft someone unless you have a gut feeling they're special and it's worth whatever round pick you choose. Maybe New England or Cleveland wouldn't mind drafting a Myles Garrett with a 2nd rounder after his freshman year. It's really just giving teams and player more freedoms and choices.