Wednesday, December 7, 2011

The NFL's influence within the NCAA

As i discussed in my last post Terrell Pryor and fellow classmates got suspended by the NCAA for selling merchendise and other things.  Another thing occured after this suspension was dulled out.  Pryor decided to forgoe his senior season of football and go into the supplemental National Football League draft where he was chosen by the Oakland Raiders.  Pryor would then not be forced to serve his suspension because the NCAA is supposedly a separate entity from the NFL.  However this was not the case and Pryor was sentenced to the same suspension by the NFL that he received from the NCAA.  This shows that even though the NCAA is supposed to be separate from the NFL the NFL still connects what you do previously in the NCAA into account, play wise as well as in Pryor's case discipline wise.  Why don't we instead of attempting to disconnect what is all ready so obviously connected for the sake of academic integrity, just create a collegiate football league connected with the NFL which allows for its players to be paid and not be tied with the laws and bureaucracy of the NCAA.  Both Major League Baseball as well as the National Basketball association have developmental leagues in which they pay players to develop into the athletes they wish them to be.  The NFL all ready has a developmental league within college football, however this league is basically working student athletes like indentured servants hoping to work of their debt in order to make some money, which the majority do not.  If there was a College Football  League outside the NCAA this would not occur and player's could be compensated for the developmental work they put in and risk toward their bodies they endure to be prepared to play in the  NFL.

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