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I would argue that the NCAA stands in the way of a true professional minor system similar to Baseball. NFL doesn't prevent the minors from existing, NCAA does.
by criley2 9y ago
I would argue that the NCAA stands in the way of a true professional minor system similar to Baseball.
NFL doesn't prevent the minors from existing, NCAA does.
- eropple 9y agoYou can argue that, but it's not particularly true or relevant. The NCAA is the recruiting pipeline because the NFL wants it to be. No other reason. If it's not the recruiting pipeline, it's relegated to obscurity and general irrelevance--see NCAA hockey for an example. The NCAA is still a monstrously shitty organization, but don't try to excuse the NHL because of it--not least because minor leagues still don't solve the problem that high schools and colleges, too, profit from breaking the bodies and the brains of their athletes as they hope to make it to the NFL. The NFL is the goal, and everyone else profits from young athletes destroying themselves to try to get there. Football is intrinsically dangerous as a sport, intrinsically exploitative as a business at each and every level, and intrinsically immoral to watch or support in a way that no other American sport, not even hockey, can manage.
- philwelch 9y agoThe NBA has been slowly working to cut out the NCAA from their development pipeline. There's no reason the NFL couldn't do the same if they wanted to.