College Basketball Persuasive
Persuasive Essay
December 4, 2013
Word Count: 1073
“One and Done” For the past 7 years high school basketball players have had to be one year removed from high school and at least nineteen years of age if they have wanted to participate in the NBA draft. Before this time, high school basketball players had the option of leaving high school after their senior year in hopes of playing in the NBA. College was not a requirement for these athletes. This became very controversial when many players were coming to the NBA straight after high school and turning out to be “busts” for NBA teams. Many players couldn’t handle the big leap from going to the prom, to making millions of dollars and competing at a very high level. Eventually the NBA made a rule that all high school graduates had to be at least one year removed from high school and at least nineteen years of age. With this new rule, athletes started going to college for only one year before participating in the NBA draft. This is what sparked the …show more content…
With only going to school for one year not much emphasis is put on scholastics for these athletes. According to Stewart Carlin of the “House of Blogs”, “Since college basketball is the only 2 semester sport on the college calendar, you may not realize that a player can go to class for the first semester, get passing grades and become eligible to play for the 2nd semester, and then NEVER go to class in the 2nd semester.” With these athletes only having to go to college for one semester, it really gives them a poor perspective of what college really is. What are these athletes going to do when they retire? What if they get hurt? Believe it or not but there is more to life then basketball and when the time comes, these athletes will have nothing to fall back on. These young men are supposed to be student-athletes, student coming first, not
December 4, 2013
Word Count: 1073
“One and Done” For the past 7 years high school basketball players have had to be one year removed from high school and at least nineteen years of age if they have wanted to participate in the NBA draft. Before this time, high school basketball players had the option of leaving high school after their senior year in hopes of playing in the NBA. College was not a requirement for these athletes. This became very controversial when many players were coming to the NBA straight after high school and turning out to be “busts” for NBA teams. Many players couldn’t handle the big leap from going to the prom, to making millions of dollars and competing at a very high level. Eventually the NBA made a rule that all high school graduates had to be at least one year removed from high school and at least nineteen years of age. With this new rule, athletes started going to college for only one year before participating in the NBA draft. This is what sparked the …show more content…
With only going to school for one year not much emphasis is put on scholastics for these athletes. According to Stewart Carlin of the “House of Blogs”, “Since college basketball is the only 2 semester sport on the college calendar, you may not realize that a player can go to class for the first semester, get passing grades and become eligible to play for the 2nd semester, and then NEVER go to class in the 2nd semester.” With these athletes only having to go to college for one semester, it really gives them a poor perspective of what college really is. What are these athletes going to do when they retire? What if they get hurt? Believe it or not but there is more to life then basketball and when the time comes, these athletes will have nothing to fall back on. These young men are supposed to be student-athletes, student coming first, not