should college athletes be allowed to make money off their name????

djchameleon · 09-16-2013, 05:33 AM

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Originally Posted by Unknown Soldier

Ok and another thing that I find strange are the draft picks. I've noticed in some sports like Basketball that the weakest teams get to pick the best college players? Surely if this is true, wouldn't the best college players want to go to one of the stronger teams?

If the best college players went to the stronger teams then it would just create a consistent monopoly on being a strong team and having all the weaker teams just stay that way forever. The best college players go to weaker teams to attempt to fix that but sometimes they still end up just being collateral and being traded off to another team for certain players.

216 could probably go into more detail about the drafts than me though. I don't watch drafts when they happen.

Unknown Soldier · 09-16-2013, 05:43 AM

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Originally Posted by djchameleon

If the best college players went to the stronger teams then it would just create a consistent monopoly on being a strong team and having all the weaker teams just stay that way forever. The best college players go to weaker teams to attempt to fix that but sometimes they still end up just being collateral and being traded off to another team for certain players.

I can see the logic in that, but take soccer here in Europe and in most of the world. There is obviously no college structure, but the best young players normally go to the best teams and their aim is to make it in those teams. They only go to a weaker team if the can't cut it at the team or as is quite often the case, they go out on loan to get valuable playing time with a lesser team.

In order for a weaker team to get stronger, they usually don't rely on getting highly rated youngsters, but usually through a clever transfer policy and a manager that can get the best out of the team. So the team gets stronger based on their own merit, rather than having a system in place to help them out.

It's not that I disagree with the US sports system, it's just that its very different to what goes on here.

djchameleon · 09-16-2013, 07:28 AM

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Originally Posted by Unknown Soldier

In order for a weaker team to get stronger, they usually don't rely on getting highly rated youngsters, but usually through a clever transfer policy and a manager that can get the best out of the team. So the team gets stronger based on their own merit, rather than having a system in place to help them out.

The thing is that one really good player can't hold an entire team on his back so even if he does get handed to a weaker team, They still need to get stronger on their own merit.

Unknown Soldier · 09-16-2013, 07:43 AM

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Originally Posted by djchameleon

The thing is that one really good player can't hold an entire team on his back so even if he does get handed to a weaker team, They still need to get stronger on their own merit.

So I guess that if a very good college player goes to weaker team and does really well and carries them, there are strong chances that he'll be traded/transferred to a bigger team in the future.

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