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Message: [QUOTE="sufandu, post: 1365631, member: 874"] It's true you can go back to school, and guys have done it. The thing with that is that most of these guys don't look at themselves as one contract guys and my guess is that by the time they realize they are too much of the money is gone for them to go back to school. In the case of the guy that's just not good enough, no biggy, go play overseas and have a great career. For a guy that gets hurt and burns through it, he's out of luck. How often does this happen? Beat's me. As far as the guys that are pushed to go back for the good of the team and encouraged to not take school seriously, that's a whole different problem. It's multi-layered too. The biggest thing is that our culture needs to stop telling these kids that sports is the most important thing in the world and that world revolves around them by the time they're in 7th grade. The problem with any system is rarely the system but the corrupt and unethical people within it. How do you fight that? Holy crap, I don't know. Schools need to care enough about academics to police it properly at every level from middle school through college. Parents need to tell their kids that the student part of student-athlete is most important. Kids need to believe that there is another way to "make it" in life aside from becoming a big time athlete. I don't know how all that gets done. It won't because there are too many scumbags that benefit from manipulating vulnerable people. Like you said, we agree on most of this stuff. The more college athletics goes down the road it's on, the less I care about them. I really wish the NBA would invest in a full on developmental league so that there could be less pretending with the amateurism of college basketball. Then we could get an MLB type rule where if a kid decides to go the pro route and gets drafted into the developmental league, the league has to guarantee them 3 year contracts. If they go the college route they're untouchable for 3 years. That would force the NBA to do some due diligence before talking a kid out of college since they couldn't just bring them in for a year and then throw them away if it didn't work out. [/QUOTE]

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