College D-1 football just became a semi-pro league.
I’ve sometimes wondered how sports have evolved, in recruitment of professional players.
Baseball has always had minor leagues, and top high school players generally go to the minor leagues, rather than to play college baseball.
Top football and basketball players coming out of high school traditionally have gone to college, and from college get drafted into the NFL or NBA.
Then again, college football and college basketball are big spectator sports, with major TV contracts and generate money and publicity for the colleges. College baseball is not nearly on the same level as football and basketball in those ways.
And to compare in another way, minor league baseball players get paid. They don’t get paid much, but they are paid for playing.
We had season tickets to WVU football for years, last year they went woke, I am not gong to throw any more money their way.
Unfortunately, there are few sports that are not woke.