or them and it takes some time to find what that is. There have been many alternatives thrown out into the air about how to keep kids in school, or even keeps kids from going to the NBA unprepared. One of these things is the minor league of basketball. This is something already taking place, especially down south and on the east coast. Basically, you can play in this league out of high school, or anytime after that, but you must not have played in the NBA. You get paid a mediocre salary, and you have a shot at making it to the pros. You cannot be in the league for more than four years, this should tell the player that is, and that he has no chance, and it is time for him to find a new career. Another alternative is paying, or compensating college scholarship athletes. This is very debatable. What makes college athletics so great is that when you see a kid graduate from four years of school, playing his sport, moving on to play professionally, you truly know that they played their college ball for the love of the game. They sacrificed all the money, time, and kept hitting the books, just to make their game that much better and to attain a NCAA Title. Truly, that is a star athlete, who wants to win, and who loves what he is so fortunately able to do. Compensating these scholarship athletes will take all that away. It will defeat the purpose for college athletics, no matter what sum of money, be it one hundred dollars a month, or two hundred dollars a week. Also, Title IX of the NCAA regulates that what happens for one scholarship athlete, it must apply to all scholarship athletes. So even if you do pay one hundred dollars a month to the basketball athlete, this means all women’s and men’s teams would have to be included in this deal. The NCAA and its universities and colleges just could not afford this. One other way that has been discussed about how to keep athletes in school is an insurance policy. Basica...
