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[QUOTE="Waltdods, post: 2334720, member: 2932"]
I think this is a little confused. (Though I agree that kids should be allowed to go pro.)

There is a ton of money sloshing around college basketball. The value of a recruit to a school and coach is massive, independent of that kids nba value. You can build walls but it isn't surprising that the money will flow around them - it's just took high stakes not to.

Remove the top 10 or 20 kids in each draft and that just makes number 11 or 21 more valuable. The top dozen or so guys were skipping college in the late nineties/early aughts (Carmelo being an obvious and fortuitous exception). I guarantee there were still recruits being paid then.

Force guys to stay three years if they don't go pro out of hs and you've actually made the guys who come in even more valuable.

College baseball isn't really comparable bc there isn't nearly as much money in the college game, and it is more of a real choice bc (1) 18-20 year olds very very rarely contribute in the majors (2) there is a massive minor league system and (3) the value of most individual players is just lower.
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