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[QUOTE="SWC75, post: 1016505, member: 289"]
As I said in a earlier post, the NCAA can't change NBA rules to keep kids here longer but they can change their own rule: allow players to remain eligible until they actually sign a pro contract, to give them an option of returning  if they don't get drafted where they thought they might go and can't catch on with a team or don't like the terms of a contract proposal. That actually empowers the kids in their contract negotiations and it will help the NBA because they won't get a player until he's really ready.

On the other end of things, allow a player who has played professionally to return to school to get his degree and, if he has any eligibility left, he could use it to play for the schools' team for a year, work on his game and try to launch himself for another shot at the NBA. Baseball players who don't make the big leagues on the first try get to use the minor leagues as a trampoline to bounce back up to the majors. If the colleges are the NBA's and NFL's minor leagues, let's allow them to do the same thing in those sports.
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