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Originally Posted by BrudLee
Daseal - no one is denying Clarett his right to play football - there are several venues to do just that. The argument seems to be whether he has the right to play in the NFL, rather than the CFL, Arena League, or some other less glamorous venue - for one year.
I agree that the rule is arbitrary and has little basis as to whether a player is "ready" for the NFL. You have to agree that deciding whether each player individually is ready is, to say the least, logistically problematic. It would also leave the league open to hundreds of lawsuits from players told to wait a year. So this arbitrary rule is how they've chosen to defend the league from players whose maturity might be outshined by their 40 times, and therefore weaken the product.
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I understand the opposing argument for Clarett to stay out of the NFL, but don't you think BL that if a player is not ready a team won't draft him? Team's are in no way forced to draft anyone particular player, and even if they do, thet are not forced to play him right away, let's face it how many of these kid's are really ready after 2 year's? very few, I just believe that if there is an exeptional kid who may be ready to compete on the NFL level, he should be givin that chance, as far as making money, sport's are some of these kid's only shot, what happen's to a Clarett if he suffer's a career ending injury? before he ever get's to the NFL? Are the colleges going top pay his way the rest of his life? Not every body has the head for school, but thier gift may be as an athlete, should kid's be punished if accademicly they are so smart that major companies want to hire them before they get out of college, and offer them million's to work for them? as far as I know there is no stipulation that they can't, [I know this is a unlikly scenerio] but the option is there, what should be done here is allow these kid's to enter the draft, if they don't like where they are drafted then the college's should reinstate thier eligibility, we are not talking about a lot of player's here, the thing that kill's me about this whole thing is this, if that kid quit school and went to work in construction or another dangerous job, you wouldn't hear boo from these colleges, yes he's old enough to work a dangerous job, possibly hanging off sky scrapper's, or join the military and maybe get killed, or injured, but he's just not ready to be drafted by the NFL, WHAT ABOUT HIS EDUCATION? HOW WILL HE EVER SURVIVE IF HE DOESN'T MAKE IT IN THE NFL?, I just feel the whole thing is very hypocrytical, as well I feel it punishes a kid who may not have the book smart's, but is football savey.