There is a loud cry from basketball "experts" today to end the "amateurism model" under which we have been working, because they say it is unworkable. I just don't understand that. Are they wanting college basketball to become a minor league for the NBA?
They cry loudly that the players are the ones producing the product, so they should be the one making the money. Why? They are getting paid for their effort with an expensive and (theoretically) valuable college education. Yes, the colleges are making a ton of money off athletics, but then doesn't Monsanto make a ton of money off the products developed by their scientists, and those scientists are paid a salary that is far, far less than the executives of the company?
What is the problem? Just open up to allow high school players to go directly to the NBA, and stay the way we are. Then the players can make a choice (their choice) as to whether they value a college education or had rather become truly professional.
It appears to me that the college basketball power structure is maneuvering to get the best of both worlds. I hope they fail - miserably.
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