re: This Ed O Bannon lawsuit could alter college sports as we know it

Posted on 10/3/12 at 9:47 am to Zamoro10

Posted by SlowFlowPro

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Posted on 10/3/12 at 9:47 am to Zamoro10

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The athletes (especially now) have to attend a University to get to the NBA,

yeah well that's a big issue with his case. he didn't have to

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Posted by Y.A. Tittle

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Posted on 10/3/12 at 9:52 am to SlowFlowPro

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yeah well that's a big issue with his case. he didn't have to

Individually, and in a vacuum, he probably did not.

However, the NBA has (probably rightly) determined that collectively as an organization, it needs the exposure of NCAA basketball to help create interest in its product by highlighting and exposing upcoming players before they get drafted into local franchises. That is what creates value for those organizations, that in turn and in part is what allows them to pay the salaries they do.

This seems to be the whole trick bag of this situation, and where I think what a lot of these people think they want, would ultimately be a case of killing the goose that lays the golden egg.

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Posted by Teddy Ruxpin

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Posted on 10/3/12 at 9:53 am to SlowFlowPro

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yeah well that's a big issue with his case. he didn't have to

Correct, no one year rule when he was in college.

Plus, that problem would be with the professional league, not the NCAA, since the NCAA doesn't enforce or have that rule, the league does.

You can certainly play in the NFL without college, just have to be 3 years after your graduating high school class, that's the requirement. No rule on "how" you spend that 3 years.

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