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Message: [QUOTE="the Q, post: 2611495, member: 8020"] The reality is the guys in the G-League make more than a LARGE LARGE % of minor league baseball players do. There's a reason that some levels have players living with host families and guys like 7 guys to a 2 bed room condo. like 95% of minor league players are just chattel to allow the real prospects a chance to play and develop. Also worth mentioning is that maybe 1% of all college baseball players get a 100% scholarship. So they also come out with plenty of student debt like any other normal student. I would be in favor of an academy style system for basketball more than any other sport for many of the reasons you talk about. I think it is good for football players to stay just because very few HS seniors are physically capable of playing in the NFL right away. To me that's a player safety issue. But right now we know for a fact that plenty of basketball players can physically handle it at 18/19. College basketball will be fine and probably better off and Duke and Kentucky can't get all the best players anyway. [/QUOTE]