What do ya'll think ? Should the NFL be able to ban him entering this wekend draft ?
High schoolers can go to the NBA, soccer players can go pro, I believe MLB and track people can too.
Why not NFL ? If his body is ready, if he's a stud, a great player - he'll get drafted. Isn't it just a job that if the person applying for is qualified should be able to pursue ? NFL teams and the league isn't private really because their stadiums are tied to their cities in many cases.
Just because all the other sports are doing it wrong don't mean that the NFL should too! I say that a rule is a rule. It shure wont hurt the kid to actualy go through the motions of learning something before he make too much money!
Think of this as a business as it actually is. Would you go to the supreme court if an employer didnt think you were qualified for a job ? Uh no .....hes not even that good , if not for all the publicity he'd be lucky to be a 6th rounder
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I'm glad they ruled in favor of the NFL. Unlike baseball, basketball, soccer & everyother noncontact sport out there the NFL has the biggest & fastest players. Now when you take a kid out of high school straight to the NFL he will get his squash taken off by any of the other players...........hell even the punter would beat him up on the field. I just don't think that their bodies are big enough to play in the pros, look at the pros bodily stats.
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1) the arguement about a younger persons body not being able to take the physical pounding is a smoke screen. There is no age limit on getting into the draft. The rule is 3 years after high school, that isn't an age limit. People have graduated high school at 10 y/o. Plus, if an athlete doesn't have the physical ability to play in the NFL no one is going to draft him anyway so who cares.
2) The NFL doesn't want the younger kids in the NFL because they will then lose there free minor league system. It's about money and nothing else. They have the best of all worlds the way things are right now. College developes there players for them
All that said I still hope that he loses his case. I think he is a punk and I don't want to see him get any advantages from being a liar and crook.
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1) What about the NHL? You guys, especially you Stealthy, don't consider the NHL a collision sport? If the NHL is not a collision sport, then I'm not watching the same sport you guys view...
2) This is about the opportunity to enter the draft. Just like HS and underclass NCAA basketball players who become eligible for the draft---they're eligible, not guaranteed.
3) The biggest problem in the entire system...NBA, NFL, NHL...all except MLB...once a player declares and signs with an agent, they lose their college playing status. Look at Omar Cook from St. John's---declared after his freshman year, undrafted, and now playing development league somewhere.
Bottom line: let them all enter the draft, and if undrafted allow them to go back to school. If they're good enough, they'll be pros. If not, they can at least finish their education...
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If Players are allowed to go straight from high school to the NFL, The muti-billion $$ college football money machine would evaporate over night.
I don't think it would evaporate, but it sure would be watered down. Much like college basketball has become. It is all about $$$$$ unfortunatley. The NFL does not care about the safety of these kids. They want to keep the Free farm system. Can you imagine how time consuming/expensive it would be if NFL teams had to scout high school players all over the nation? It doesn't make it right, but $$$$$ is what this case is all about.
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S&R I agree with you on #1 ........Bertuzi(sp) i think broke the guys neck.
This maybe out of line but see what you think. What if they couldn't enter the draft until they had their college education? The reason is not all who go into pro sports are going to be there long enough to have the $$$$$$$$$$ that need to retire, then they want to maintain their lifestyle BIG $$$$$$$$$$. This way they would at least have the education to fall back on. What do you think?
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My question is why do the courts have to get involved in this? The NFL should be able to do what they want to do. If anyone doesn't like it, stop buying tickets. If the networks don't like it, don't bid on the next television contract. If the owners don't like it, withdraw their team from the league. Then if you get the NFL's attention, they might change the policy. I get tired of seeing the court system get involved with private business in this country.
As for the NFL ruling that the kid can't enter the draft, I'm glad that they did. I wish the NBA had a rule that you can't declare for the draft until you have completed your junior year of college. For that matter, I wish all sports required players to finish out their college careers. IMHO, a player who leaves school is cheating his university. These schools are not building for THIS YEAR. They are building for the future. Recruiters are constantly trying to put the best pieces into place that will carry that school for the next several years. A school only has a limited number of scholarships to award each year. When they award one of those scholarships, they are planning on that player being there for four years. . . Maybe taking a redshirt for a year, maybe spending a couple of years in the reserves, learning the system, then starring their junior and senior seasons. If schools had unlimited scholarships, it might be a different story but they don't and any time a player leaves school, he is cheating that school... He took the free education (or at least part of it and can finish later) that they offered him, then jumped ship before he fulfilled his end of the bargain.
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