Monday, February 09, 2004
High schoolers may now enter the NFL draft.
A court has now decreed that high school seniors may enter the NFL draft. The rule demanding that players be at least three years out of high school has been struck down. A lot of mediocre talent will be flooding our professional activities, I suspect. This is ridiculous--the courts are clearly intruding into private life (something that worryies them greatly when talking about radical Islamists) by demanding control even over sports.
In her 71-page opinion, Scheindlin declared the rule violated antitrust laws and proposed alternatives.
"Age is obviously a poor proxy for NFL-readiness, as is a restriction based solely on height and weight," she wrote. "Medical examinations and tests are available to measure an individual player's maturity. The league could easily use those tests to screen out players who are not prepared to play in the NFL. ...
"By requiring draft prospects to submit to these examinations, the league could provide valuable information about player maturity to its teams and allow them to decide whether a prospect is worth selecting."
I don't know, Scheindlin. Age sounds like a pretty good factor to me. With all the ranting left-wing activists and others do about wealth in America as opposed to the rest of the world, this would seem to be a good place to start. Lebron James, who started this whole affair, is making money hand over fist. Others will soon do the same. Deprived of having to run up college bills, which are minimal for athletes anyway, they opt to go right for privilege. When talking about the injustice of wealth and the gap between rich and poor, let's not talk about people who work their entire lives to build up a business empire for themselves and their children. Let's talk about pampered athletes who make way more than any one person is worth, no matter how good they are, and can now start earlier to make the money to live a wasted life without the education to make them useful.
A court has now decreed that high school seniors may enter the NFL draft. The rule demanding that players be at least three years out of high school has been struck down. A lot of mediocre talent will be flooding our professional activities, I suspect. This is ridiculous--the courts are clearly intruding into private life (something that worryies them greatly when talking about radical Islamists) by demanding control even over sports.
In her 71-page opinion, Scheindlin declared the rule violated antitrust laws and proposed alternatives.
"Age is obviously a poor proxy for NFL-readiness, as is a restriction based solely on height and weight," she wrote. "Medical examinations and tests are available to measure an individual player's maturity. The league could easily use those tests to screen out players who are not prepared to play in the NFL. ...
"By requiring draft prospects to submit to these examinations, the league could provide valuable information about player maturity to its teams and allow them to decide whether a prospect is worth selecting."
I don't know, Scheindlin. Age sounds like a pretty good factor to me. With all the ranting left-wing activists and others do about wealth in America as opposed to the rest of the world, this would seem to be a good place to start. Lebron James, who started this whole affair, is making money hand over fist. Others will soon do the same. Deprived of having to run up college bills, which are minimal for athletes anyway, they opt to go right for privilege. When talking about the injustice of wealth and the gap between rich and poor, let's not talk about people who work their entire lives to build up a business empire for themselves and their children. Let's talk about pampered athletes who make way more than any one person is worth, no matter how good they are, and can now start earlier to make the money to live a wasted life without the education to make them useful.
// posted by The Pendragon @ 3:12 PM 
