Why do you have to go to college to play sports?

Why do you have to go to college to play sports?

Why can't you just straight into the pros at 18 like baseball?

To get scouted? Plus when you go to college you're only required to play a year before you sign a professional contract

The modern day plantation system that is the NCAA

Who knows

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Nothing is stopping cocky niggas from signing a meme euro contract and beating up on slav shits for a year or two

I thought you had to play all 4 years for the NFL

1 for bball, 3 for football, 0 for hockey, soccer, and baseball

Hockey is 2 years for 90% of the canadian drafted players they have to either play in the NHL or their meme teen league for free before they can go pro.

You don't have to "play" 3 years, you just have to be 3 years removed from high school. That's how every year, redshirted sophomores enter the draft.

And that's the same for the NBA. Players have every right to play overseas or semi-pro ball, a year in college is just the best chance to be showcased and developed.

clubs don't want to raise children if they can help it
25+ shitheads are enough trouble

Because the NCAA needs advertising money

because of the money the schools makes. theyre never going to let that go.

Schools want a piece of the exploitation also.

Because back when you could enter the NBA at 18 the DLeague barely existed and is nowhere close to as good as it is today, which is still really bad as a farm league. There are only 2 rounds in the NBA draft so you don't scout/draft a lot of young talent to stow on a DLeague team and hope they develop. The only "stash" picks that are made are Euro players on existing contracts overseas.

Sports are entirely different too. NBA rosters much smaller and you can survive with 7-8 players for the most part

gotta learn to cycle steroids somewhere

MLB has farms, other leagues have NCAA

If there good enough there are no rules preventing them from the nhl unlike NFL and NBA tho

Baseball has a huge development system that for the most part other leagues lack

Hockey has a fair amount of eighteen year olds drafted because there are more development oriented leagues for them to play in.

Basketball could have people go straight in but they have that gay draft rule

Football I don't have a good reason but the current system seems to work OK

Because college develop skills.

there are already so many bust in the draft it would only increase if you let them come from high school.

You'd also probably only get people drafted from Texas and Georgia

Oy vey shut it down

Because the NFL doesn't see the need for a developmental system when college football already exists and predates professional football leagues

i wonder what kind of degree the average NBA player goes for.

Because the NCAA doesn't want to miss out on the next Lebron playing in the final tournament.

Easy shit like communications

>Football I don't have a good reason but the current system seems to work OK
The government has a vested interest in protected college and high school football, plus the NFL is cheap.

Easy shit. And the universities make sure someone else does all of their work for them.

UNC literally had a class specifically for the basketball team where you didn't have to show up, just write a few papers. Each player wrote a single page of illiterate nonsense and got As for it

>developing skills with some little Napoleon in a college gym v developing skills in multimillion dollar facilities with real professionals

1.College Football is a religion in many parts of the country, if all the best players didn't go to college an entire market worth billions of dollars would collapse

2. It's easy for a 19 year old to try to go against nba competition if he's like 6'9 or taller. Whereas even the best 19 year old football players would be absolutely crushed every single down in the NFL. You just have to have a level of muscle, toughness, and durability in the NFL that isn't possible for someone coming straight out of high school or even one year of college in most cases.

Because USA is obsessed with the dollarinos

Do American sports not have academy systems then?
Strictly through college competition and then straight into the first team of the pro leagues?
I mean, we've got shit like Manchester United/Liverpool/Arsenal/whoever under 14s, u15s, u16s, U18s u21s etc. Nothing like that?

So here's a question: what's stopping a start-up Spring football league from putting teams in markets without NFL teams (St. Louis, Oklahoma City, San Antonio, Cleveland, Portland, Salt Lake, etc.) signing high school prospects away from the NCAA, and slowly building a competitor to the NFL?

The only league with anything remotely close is baseball with the minor league farm system.