Except there are a handful of kids every year that exercise the one-and-done option, and they don't spend that year wasting their talent and their chosen school's time. Look down the road to New Orleans....Anthony Davis certainly didn't mail in his year at UK. He's just one example. And Ben wasn't LSU's first one and done either. Remember Anthony Randolph? I think he spent his year at LSU productively. Ben could have done the same. Fuckin' prima donna.
Wouldn't work. You couldn't legally do it for one sport, it would have to be across the board. How are you going to justify not paying the gymnasts or cross country runners the same as the basketball or football players?
Do I have to be the one with all the answers? They wanna eat a fancy diet, Pony up. Uniform laundered, Pony up. Housing, Pony up. Private tutoring, Pony up. Add to If you like. A lot of perks there, so yeah, pay up fuggers. Wanna earn more, work harder. OMG, what a concept...
What about the football and basketball players who aren't going to be drafted? The only player on this year's hoops team that might ever be drafted is Waters and he wouldn't be if he went the one and done route this year.
So you're suggesting the Pelicans, for example, draft Javonte Smart right out of high school and then pay him while he goes to college for a year? I don't think that idea's going to fly.
