[Perdogg]

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[Cowboy Bob]

Isn’t that racist????

[grania]

The NFL doesn’t have a minor league. They depend on colleges to produce players. It’s up to the colleges to have the same academic standards for atheletes as the rest of their students. In addition to that, they’re getting sports scholarships. I’m amazed they aren’t revoked for criminal behavior.

[ken5050]

NBA will take kids right out of HS..or the very common one-and done..whereas the NFL only allows them to be drafted after 3 years of college eligibility have passed. Obviously there’s a discrepancy here, which will end up in court. The NFL doesn’t want to upset the colleges, which provide them with a free farm system.I don’t know how it all ends up. The NBA has the “D” league..maybe the NFL should purchase Arena football, of forget the dumb idea of a team in Europe, and put a “D” league in several European cities. Also, the O’Bannon case hangs over all of this..

[who_would_fardels_bear]

If the essayist is correct then teams that want potentially problematic players will have to pay a bit more to scout them. Also, it will be more obvious when teams draft players that have problems, when those players are on a list of those ineligible for the combine.

This should have some effect on discouraging teams from scouting those players, or being more diligent in their sussing out of those players they do draft outside of the combine.

I don't see anything wrong in that. It might make colleges a bit more diligent in teaching their kids. Some teams might make pledges to not draft anyone ineligible for the combine. College players might work a bit harder to keep their academic eligibility so they can go to combine, especially if they are not name players, and who will need every edge they can get.

[GrandJediMasterYoda]

How about just banning morons who think they are King of the gangstas? I don't know, call me crazy, but a 23 year old kid who has his entire upper torso covered in tattoos that says stuff like "hate me now" or has a picture of Jesus praying up to his name as if he were God may not be exactly all there in the mental stability dept.

[goodwithagun]

This should be the colleges’ issue not the NFL’s. If the athletes are academically ineligible then they should not have been participating at the NCAA level.

[Chode]

better be careful lest the EEOC SUE THEM!!!

[Baynative]

"NFL considers banning academically ineligible players from Scouting Combine"

GREAT IDEA!

[Old Yeller]

I reckon they won’t be using combines anymore. Gonna have to go back to hand harvesting.

[rintense]

No, Aaron Hernandez will ultimately have an impact on teams considering academically ineligible players.

[SamAdams76]

Read Tom Wolfe’s “Man In Full.” One of the characters is a teen athlete destined for the pros who gets himself in trouble with a rape charge. Wolfe nails perfectly the whole culture of bending over backwards to accomodate “gifted athletes” so they can get through college even though they are as dumb as a bag of hammers. Of course, the athlete in the book is a contemptible, anti-social jerk who feels he is above the law because he can toss a basketball into a round hoop.