NCAA
Posted: Mon May 04, 2020 3:37 pm
No you don't. You believe in the fallacy that letting them go pro is some sort of free market in action.
Weird how being free means free market.
I'm not forcing anyone to do anything. You are. Canada? Go hug a maple tree.
Wake me up when we actually have one or a populace able to properly use their power in one.
The NFL doesn't want them. You want to force them to hire kids before they're ready.
It's closer than Europe!
Well, you say that, but you most certainly can. You do so by dictating who they can't hire. Or by simply proclaiming they aren't hiring enough _____________. And clearly, someone will (has?) make the argument that the NFL making kids wait to reach a certain age is racist.
That's a choice for the player to make. Are they willing to risk it?
So the nanny state is OK? You shouldn't have joined the military cuz something bad could have happened to you.
Again, that's their choice. Kids are making $8/hour at jobs, but the $2.7M they're guaranteed for being drafted isn't enough (that's Mr. Irrelevant's guaranteed $$)?
This argument is absurd. Markets work.Leisher wrote: You're creating fake demand for a product nobody wants. These GMs HAVE TO follow trends or take chances because most of them don't have any career longevity. Plus, they usually get 2 shots max, if they're lucky, to be successful. It's like giving the reins of the economy to a gambling addict, telling him/her they MUST make a ridiculous profit in a calendar year, and then giving him/her the option of using the federal budget to play blackjack.
Is the NBA worse for having younger players? I can't see anyone arguing that validly.
Ooops, they cannot.Additionally, NCAA and NAIA players are eligible to be selected after completing their senior season of eligibility.
Then why isn't it a choice for kids to smoke? How about motorcyclists to ride without helmets? Riding in a car without a seat belt? Yelling fire in a theater? And about a billion other examples?
And we should stop. Same with little kids throwing curveballs who blow out their arms before ever sniffing a pro contract.
[Insert meme of RDJ rolling his eyes]
And many make the wrong choices because they get bad advice, come from extreme poverty, and so on. Again, I'm pro free market, but I don't think we have the right consumers. And again, a discussion better placed into a different thread. Anyway, these kids will be bankrupt with medical bills, their hangers on will be gone, they'll be lacking an education, and then what? Our great free market gets to support them or as we've seen in some cases, innocent people get to get murdered by them.
It's cute that you think they do. Markets 100% do not work. And again, this should be discussed elsewhere...
Well, their ratings suck (pre-C-19) because fewer people are interested in their product. Attendance was down. Their total free market approach has created super teams that bore the living shit out of people and have turned off a sizable portion of their audience. Most of their small market teams have zero chance of winning a title, so the only contenders are the same handful of teams each year. Their commissioner has publicly admitted they have issues in all the areas I just said. And most of the high school kids going right to the league have been busts.
Oops they absolutely can and have. WTF does NCAA and NAIA stuff have to do with anything? Seriously. You lost me there. Two of the Ball kids left in their junior year of high school and freshman/sophomore year of college to go play in Europe. That just happened within the last year.
You said CFL, and this is the NFL (football) thread, not basketball.