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[QUOTE="OttoinGrotto, post: 5539547, member: 297"]
So... when you look at the current student populations in higher education you see a lot of non-traditional students, continuing ed, etc.

With the student body demographics changing, why can't that also apply to student-athletes.l? What's the difference between a person that graduates high school, works for ten years, and decided to go back for a degree and is able to get a scholarship to do so, and a guy that graduates high school, does two years in the G league, plays for a few years in Europe, can't make money as a professional basketball player anymore, so chooses to go to school to get a degree and is able to get a scholarship to play basketball to do so?

You'll probably say they're not an amateur anymore. And you're right. But we don't have amateurs now. So I ask again, what's the difference?

Having student-athletes like this would raise the talent level and level of play of college basketball. And we might even find that they provide a lot of roster stability. There's a good chance a lot of these guys aren't mercenaries and would use their full eligibility on their way to a degree. Some institutions could get a competitive advantage by making themselves appealing to guys that want to settle in for a while. They might even be great mentors and "coaches on the floor" to the guys that are on a traditional college timeline. These would all be positives for college hoops.
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