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<blockquote data-quote="The Bell Tolls for Thee" data-source="post: 131264795" data-attributes="member: 1812660"><p>I'll never fault someone for looking out for their best interest unless it directly subverts someone else's.&nbsp; The problem is the entire system that pretty much uses college athletics as a farm system in regard to basketball and football. If your primary goal is athletics, you should not be at college.&nbsp; However, there isn't much of an alternative for these players and the people have voted with their eyes and wallets.&nbsp; Thus tacitly condoning this system by rewarding the schools with massive amounts of money.&nbsp; The body gives out long before the mind and the natural order of operations should be that the 18 year old explores their athletic potential first.&nbsp; Ideally with the ability to just work on their game and then join the college ranks second if they are up to college student standards, but not ready to advance professionally.&nbsp; Now we have this one size fits all system where players like Sherman and McCaffery can easily be college level students and professional level athletes.&nbsp; However we also try to cram guys who have no business having a high school diploma much less a college degree into this system just because they are athletic.</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="The Bell Tolls for Thee, post: 131264795, member: 1812660"] I'll never fault someone for looking out for their best interest unless it directly subverts someone else's. The problem is the entire system that pretty much uses college athletics as a farm system in regard to basketball and football. If your primary goal is athletics, you should not be at college. However, there isn't much of an alternative for these players and the people have voted with their eyes and wallets. Thus tacitly condoning this system by rewarding the schools with massive amounts of money. The body gives out long before the mind and the natural order of operations should be that the 18 year old explores their athletic potential first. Ideally with the ability to just work on their game and then join the college ranks second if they are up to college student standards, but not ready to advance professionally. Now we have this one size fits all system where players like Sherman and McCaffery can easily be college level students and professional level athletes. However we also try to cram guys who have no business having a high school diploma much less a college degree into this system just because they are athletic. [/QUOTE]

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