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Originally posted by PA_SVX
I'm also glad the NCAA is keeping Mike Willimas off of the USC team. I think if a player on a scholarship leaves early for pro sports, they have to pay back all the money they used plus 15% to cover the teams expenses for the trouble and money they spent getting him in the first place.
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I think that is a very poor statement. You have no idea why he was trying to go to the pros, maybe his family lives in the projects and he saw a way to get them out of there. He may have been doing it for the money (gee, that never happens in pro sports), one thing you can't do is argue that the guy wasn't talented enough, because I guarantee he would have been one heck of a player. (Clarett on the other hand, I am not so sure about!)
I say the NFL either does what the NBA, MLB and NHL do, which is to allow youngins, or make them graduate. The whole 3 years removed from high school is just dumb, make it an age requirement or just let the NFL teams decide if they want to draft an 18 year old.
My .02 (which if we were in Turkey would be 28,120 Lira)