Why is hockey the only sport in which a player can still play ncaa after having entered the draft and being drafted?
JohnnyChoice said:Why is hockey the only sport in which a player can still play ncaa after having entered the draft and being drafted?
Jonjmc said:Baseball is the same way. A kid can be drafted after his senior year in High School, not sign the pro contract, and go play college baseball..... only to be drafted again.
JohnnyChoice said:Yeah he can be drafted, choose not to sign and re enter another year. The team that originally drafted him out of high school doesn't hold on to his rights. In the NHL, they do.
TheMoose said:They have to sign the player within 2 years of 1st drafting the player, otherwise he goes back into the draft, if i'm not mistaken.
TheMoose said:They have to sign the player within 2 years of 1st drafting the player, otherwise he goes back into the draft, if i'm not mistaken.
Hasbro said:Because the NCAA is a thoroughly backwards organizaation that regularly makes arbitratrary rules contrary to common sense.
Hasbro said:Specificaly we are talking about hockey players being able to opt in for the draft and not lose their eligibility. Drafting players outside of their own volition has gone on forever. And even the NBA has had the situation (most notably with Larry Bird).
It's probably a better policy and I believe there are reentry excemption rules for the NBA draft as well.
But then again this organizationdidn't let Mike Williams back into USC after he declared early thinking Sophmores would be eligible.