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Message: [QUOTE="Hoo's That, post: 1777652, member: 3609"] I don't give a rat's patootie about the NBA or any other professional league where ever it is in any way, shape or form. I am definitely a hater. To me NBA refs are a slight step above WWE "refs". There are at least two problems in regard to your first point #2. Problem #1 is that the first sentence describes a professional basketball player. The NCAA refuses to allow any school to use professional basketball players. And I'm glad. The minor league baseball players who played football, like Chris Weinke at $U, were able to do it because they did not hire an agent and they were still amateurs for football because they were not paid to play football. They were not allowed to play baseball for their schools because they were professional baseball players. The second problem is probably insurmountable because the NBA will NEVER allow this to happen regardless of how the NCAA feels about it. They will not allow a drafted player to go back to college and thereby "waste" the draft pick and the bonus money. They wanted [U]that[/U] guy, not someone else that may or may not be as good in a future draft because "they get the pick back". If you want D-1 schools to sponsor teams of players who wear their colors but don't have to go to class and serve as the minor leagues for the NBA, et al., then say so. The Mexican universities in Mexico City and Nuevo Leon sponsor soccer teams that way in the Mexican soccer league and I seriously doubt many of their players have seen the inside of a classroom at the schools. Many schools that you may think would agree to that idea won't do it. ND won't do it because they will require anyone in an ND jersey to go to class. I'd like to think that UVa won't do it for the same reason. I think SU and many private schools might be joining them because of the costs. The NBA owners are not poor people. Let them open THEIR wallets to pay for a minor league. This is pretty easy for me to say because UVa is not going to get many, if not any, one-and-dones, because they, stereotypically, don't want to play anything beyond matador defense. And "that dog won't hunt." [/QUOTE]

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