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Message: [QUOTE="CaptainJ, post: 258012, member: 1553"] I fully agree that some things are not optimal and are a farce with the NCAA being partially made into a farm system, but I don't see anything overwhelmingly wrong with it. I don't know the statistics, but the commercials tell me most athletes get their degrees. If a small percentage leave early to go pro and help make the universities money in the meantime while entertaining rabid fans like us(as well as more casual fans), I don't see the harm. Whether or not a certain coach uses illegal practices or not to recruit is an ENTIRELY different issue, of which there is no apparent proof(according to Dickie V, last night). I'm kind of old school and enjoy when players who could leave early choose to stay the 4 years, but I think that choice should be up to the individual and based on what they feel will best suit their needs. Sure some will make what we call the "wrong" choice, but so do folks in every arena of life. Free will is one of the gifts humans are supposedly born with at least to some extent(some scientists argue it is limited, based on the chemicals and programs instilled within us, but I don't wish to get too complicated), and I feel it should only be limited when it infringes on the natural rights of others. I think nature provides us a good example with natural laws letting things get tested to see what works and what doesn't. People who want to control others should have substantial proof of the harm a person would do to others before limiting any sort of rights such as free association. While we're discussing natural law(nature does things better than mankind in general, similar to private organizations vs government), I think we'd also do better to let nature take it's course with age of consent laws like the less backward nations of Europe. As much as I hate to say it, sometimes they employ more common sense and have less vested interest in having the world's largest number of prisoners unlike us with our government grift and private, for profit prisons. Our legalistic mentality has been instilled since a young age and is helpful for a "justice" system whose primary cause has become revenue generation and instilling of fear and control rather than preventing actual crimes against persons and property. I won't get started on the victimless crimes and the corporations those laws assist. Yeah I am off topic, if anyone bothered to read, but we now return you to the hypocritical bashing of "Paypal Cal". [/QUOTE]

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