[Husker] Pelini Pre-season Press Conference

[Steve Stone]

Mike Nolan wrote:

(snip)

>I don't know that this will solve what has been one of the biggest problems
>facing teams, players leaving early for the NCAA.  I also read on TSN
>that over half of the players who left school early for the NFL after the
>2007 season were not drafted this spring.

For half a dozen years now, I've been advocating ('though not often 
on the HuskerList) that when an undergrad player goes to the NFL, the 
team that drafts him should also have to pay the university he comes 
from an amount equal to the rookie's first year salary times the 
number of years of eligibility the player had remaining at the 
university.

Example: a Baylor I-Back is drafted by the New York Jets after his 
junior year and given total compensation of, say, two million 
dollars. The Jets are then required to pay an additional two million 
in compensation to Baylor. If drafted after his sophomore year, the 
Jets would have to compensate Baylor with four million.

If memory serves, some years ago the NFL was sued by an underegrad, 
and the courts ordered the NFL to accept juniors and sophomores who 
wanted to turn pro although the NFL didn't want to.

This plan would give the NFL a perfectly valid reason to draft only a 
handful of youngsters.

Steve Stone