OT - One and Done is for Losers

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Originally Posted by Snaqwells

Nothing you do is going to keep John Wall in college more than one year. The only thing these proposed solutions would do is keep him from going to college in the first place, and I think you would rather have players like him for one year than none. I know I would.

Actually, I wouldn't. I would much rather see intercollegiate athletics return to being a recreational activity for real students who went to college for the education, not with the hope of becoming a professional athlete.

I believe that paid minor leagues should be formed or further developed for those individuals with professional athletics as their goal. Completely divorcing higher education from big-time athletics in our country would be wonderful. The best way to do that would be to remove most of the ability for it to generate money for the institutions. After all, if it didn't make them money, then they certainly wouldn't do it. That could be accomplished by banning amatuer athletics from television in this country.