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Message: [QUOTE="Onions, post: 3933104, member: 3284"] The NCAA is in business. The product they sell is March Madness. They are in partnership with the Membership Schools who create the opportunity for the Tourney to exist by buying the best young players in the world. The Tourney money is then split between the NCAA and the Schools, leaving the players without a direct stake in that particular pot of gold. If you think the watered down basketball that would be the result if a true NBA minor league system existed would make enough money for these greedy entities, then you are blowing too much weed. Most of these kids are not capable at 17, 18 and 19 of negotiating with and/or playing for foreign basketball teams. Some of them have a hard time dealing with Storrs, CT. I don't see the problem with allowing students athletes to make their own money off the court. It's a restriction no other student faces. [/QUOTE]