[quote="Porgyman" post=291997][quote="alexander salem" post=291987]I love both rules, especially the second one. Real life example: A kid is a junior at Harvard and is brilliant in math. Microsoft has a job available that he interviews for. He doesn’t get the job. Does Harvard then tell him...”sorry, you can’t return “? Of course not. The NCAA rule was unnecessarily punitive to the athletes.
That is a Horrible example.[/quote]
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Well for starters the math major is probably paying his own way, not being sponsored by the school unless he's on academic schollie. He's also entering a field that is not unilaterally governed by a CBA of an all powerful union. There are no equitable examples unless you believe in the myth of the student athlete as it pertains to the 5% of D1 basketball schools that they anticipate being affected by this.
That said I think these are logical and fair rule changes, but they'll be difficult to manage by the staff's of those schools. DO they now need to leave a ship open for their borderline draft prospects just in case they decide to return? What is their status if the team they played for the previous year didn't leave room for them, would they have to follow transfer rules to go somewhere else (and who knows what those rules will be soon anyway)? Would guys like Duval, Trier, Alkins and others return to school to try again anyway or will agents talk them out of it so they can make some money? It'll be a new world when next spring comes around.
