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Reply to "Kendall Rogers"

PABaseball posted:

A 10 round draft is the worst thing that could happen to the NCAA. A shortened draft will just create a bigger backlog of players on college rosters - which is already the problem with granting eligibility waivers. Juniors who signed for 125k in rounds 10-40 are just going to go back to school and finish their senior year. Why sign for 10k as a junior when you can sign for 5k with a degree? Why sign for 10k when you could wait until the normal 40 round draft the following year? Unless that is the direction the plan on moving in for the foreseeable future. 

What I think should happen - college athletes should continue using their eligibility on schedule. When their eligibility runs out they should be able to apply and be granted a redshirt season for the lost time. Many will not choose to use said year, some will be drafted, some will quit baseball altogether. Kids will use 5 years if they know they have it. But kids will use their 4 and start to think about life after baseball if you push it off and make it optional. Between the draft, optional waivers, and attrition it will sort itself out within a year or two. Seniors get nothing out of this but I'm sure an arrangement could be made with the exception that they were enrolled in grad school full time. 

The biggest winners are JUCOs and Indy Ball. If Jucos were smart, they would be making calls in advance to scoop up the top released underclassmen. If Indy teams were smart they would be calling local schools and asking for their seniors. 

Regardless of the outcome, this hurts the teams at the top way more than the teams at the bottom. Rosters are worked out to a science for schools that have 12+ incoming and 6+ drafted. It's going to be a headache at the top. As you go down the line there will be more drop downs from the higher level programs. 

Good points but when coaches were planning on guys leaving and have committed the money elsewhere, who pays for them to return?

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