I know you are being sarcastic but what right do these NCAA players have where they should be allowed to dictate where they get to sign even if they were drafted?! I don't know about NCAA but in regards to Euro draft picks teams would hold their rights to age 31 in the pre 04-05 lockout days. Regular unrestricted free agency didn't happen for players until they turned 31 and passed their prime so I think it's funny how they can finish their degree and in 4 years at the age of 22 totally **** over a team and get to pick where they go. These players haven't earned ****. Seeing Vesey pretty much massively disappoint pleases me greatly. If/when Peterson does the same thing I will be actively rooting against him hoping he does poorly wherever he goes.
You've got some rather specious reasoning here. What bearing does the holding of rights of players drafted prior to the 2004-05 lockout have on players drafted now. That's literally two collective bargaining agreements ago. Unrestricted free agency happens at 27 now, not 31. The idea that the way rights were held two CBAs ago should have anything to do with rights now is absurd.
Also with the way things work now-a-days how many NCAA players remaining in college for
four years after being drafted is going to "**** over" the team drafting them? Most college players drafted with high picks are going to be signed long before they ever have a chance to complete their NCAA eligibility. The exceptions are largely going to be players that teams were hesitant to sign before they reached that point and, frankly, if a team knew it had
four entire years to sign a first round pick and opted to wait until he was within view of free agency to try to sign him in earnest, they have no one to blame but themselves. And when it comes to players who were first rounders and don't sign, teams get compensatory picks for them.
When a player was a mid to late round pick and doesn't sign? Those picks are a crap shoot anyway. Every team passes on signing guys that it's drafted in that range every few years. So on an extremely rare occasion it's the player that opts to not sign rather than the team? It's a minor loss of an asset that, if chance had broken differently, would've ended up lost for other reasons.