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[QUOTE="shantydaze, post: 2160304, member: 666"]
If there is a gripe over this, it should not be directed at colleges, but the NBA and NBA players who agreed in the collective bargaining agreement that a player be at least 19 and one year removed from high school to be drafted in the NBA.

In addition, nothing stops a player from taking the Brandon Jennings route to the NBA. Rather than go to college, he agreed to play in Europe for [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandon_Jennings']$1.65 million[/URL] and a $2 million shoe deal. The issue for many high school players is they are not physically mature enough or need better coaching to be able to play professionally. After one year in college, nothing stops a player from leaving college to sell his services on the free market to play professionally in the NBA (to be fair, it is not really the free market until free agency). What gets lost in the conversation so often is that the vast majority of players are not good enough to sell their services to the NBA, and, therefore, voluntarily return to college where they can exploit the school's free coaching, facilities, etc. until they are attractive enough to play professionally or graduate with a degree and connections to find employment in a different field. This is the free market at work.
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