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Message: [QUOTE="shantydaze, post: 2581975, member: 666"] I do not think an option that specifically targets the athletes will fly. Instead, if you want to end OADs, make coaches recruit them competitively disadvantaged. The easiest way of doing this is with scholarships. Absent exceptions for health issues or family issues, make all scholarships count for two years regardless if the athlete stays for two years. So, it looks four of Duke's freshman scholarship players are leaving for the NBA. Their scholarships would need to remain unfilled until the end of next year, effectively reducing Duke's scholarship number from 13 to 9. Would this stop all OADs? No, but it would certainly require coaches to consider whether a one year player is worth the loss of a scholarship the next year. In some cases, I would say it certainly would and a program having one OAD player every two years might be okay. [/QUOTE]