HS Baseball Phenom leaves after Sophomore year... Thoughts

[mikejet]

Originally Posted by fatediesel

I like baseball's current system, but think you should not be able to be drafted until you graduate high school and are 18 (or will be 18 by a certain date, say August 1). The NBA's age limit is showing what a joke forcing people to go to college is. Players like Derrick Rose and OJ Mayo just get paid under the table and rig their grades to get eligible. If they raised the age limit more players would just go overseas and get paid, or there would just be more cheating scandals. I say go with baseball's rule, where if you go to college you have to stay 3 years. Don't force these players to go to college if they don't want to go or don't have the grades to get into college.

It's going to be interesting this year for the NBA Draft because there will be a guy who went straight to Europe after HS and then will be in this years draft. There's a lot of differing opinions on how it will be handled.