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We're currently watching the ammo needed for power conferences to fight to change the one and done rule. Unreal parity in this tournament.

The "one and done" rule was an administrative device to help both colleges and the NBA with their public relations difficulties. All it will take is one lawsuit by a player and the courts will tell them to go back to the Moses Malone ruling that opened the NBA draft to high school graduates. He was the first and LeBron James was one of the last.

The reason football has its administrative rule of 3 years is because no athlete has filed suit challenging it. So far there has never been any high school football stars who have thought they could play in the NFL without college preparation. If there is ever a "Lebron James" football player who is willing to go to court over the rule, it will be history just like it was in basketball.

No court has ever ruled that any team can deny anyone the right to pursue a livelihood by playing a pro sport. As with Moses Malone, the court agreed it was his right to enter the NBA draft and he did.

(03-21-2014 10:34 PM)BAMANBLAZERFAN Wrote:  The "one and done" rule was an administrative device to help both colleges and the NBA with their public relations difficulties. All it will take is one lawsuit by a player and the courts will tell them to go back to the Moses Malone ruling that opened the NBA draft to high school graduates. He was the first and LeBron James was one of the last.

The reason football has its administrative rule of 3 years is because no athlete has filed suit challenging it. So far there has never been any high school football stars who have thought they could play in the NFL without college preparation. If there is ever a "Lebron James" football player who is willing to go to court over the rule, it will be history just like it was in basketball.

No court has ever ruled that any team can deny anyone the right to pursue a livelihood by playing a pro sport. As with Moses Malone, the court agreed it was his right to enter the NBA draft and he did.

There is an abundance of incorrect info in this post

(03-22-2014 08:22 AM)LairDweller Wrote:  

(03-21-2014 10:34 PM)BAMANBLAZERFAN Wrote:  The "one and done" rule was an administrative device to help both colleges and the NBA with their public relations difficulties. All it will take is one lawsuit by a player and the courts will tell them to go back to the Moses Malone ruling that opened the NBA draft to high school graduates. He was the first and LeBron James was one of the last.

The reason football has its administrative rule of 3 years is because no athlete has filed suit challenging it. So far there has never been any high school football stars who have thought they could play in the NFL without college preparation. If there is ever a "Lebron James" football player who is willing to go to court over the rule, it will be history just like it was in basketball.

No court has ever ruled that any team can deny anyone the right to pursue a livelihood by playing a pro sport. As with Moses Malone, the court agreed it was his right to enter the NBA draft and he did.

There is an abundance of incorrect info in this post

"+1"

(03-22-2014 08:22 AM)LairDweller Wrote:  

(03-21-2014 10:34 PM)BAMANBLAZERFAN Wrote:  The "one and done" rule was an administrative device to help both colleges and the NBA with their public relations difficulties. All it will take is one lawsuit by a player and the courts will tell them to go back to the Moses Malone ruling that opened the NBA draft to high school graduates. He was the first and LeBron James was one of the last.

The reason football has its administrative rule of 3 years is because no athlete has filed suit challenging it. So far there has never been any high school football stars who have thought they could play in the NFL without college preparation. If there is ever a "Lebron James" football player who is willing to go to court over the rule, it will be history just like it was in basketball.

No court has ever ruled that any team can deny anyone the right to pursue a livelihood by playing a pro sport. As with Moses Malone, the court agreed it was his right to enter the NBA draft and he did.

There is an abundance of incorrect info in this post

Please help me get it right. What critical info did I get wrong?

(03-22-2014 04:34 PM)BAMANBLAZERFAN Wrote:  

(03-22-2014 08:22 AM)LairDweller Wrote:  

(03-21-2014 10:34 PM)BAMANBLAZERFAN Wrote:  The "one and done" rule was an administrative device to help both colleges and the NBA with their public relations difficulties. All it will take is one lawsuit by a player and the courts will tell them to go back to the Moses Malone ruling that opened the NBA draft to high school graduates. He was the first and LeBron James was one of the last.

The reason football has its administrative rule of 3 years is because no athlete has filed suit challenging it. So far there has never been any high school football stars who have thought they could play in the NFL without college preparation. If there is ever a "Lebron James" football player who is willing to go to court over the rule, it will be history just like it was in basketball.

No court has ever ruled that any team can deny anyone the right to pursue a livelihood by playing a pro sport. As with Moses Malone, the court agreed it was his right to enter the NBA draft and he did.

There is an abundance of incorrect info in this post

Please help me get it right. What critical info did I get wrong?

For starters, Reggie Harding was the first high school player drafted to the NBA. Moses Malone went from high school to the ABA, about a decade later.

(03-22-2014 04:59 PM)Marathon Blazer Wrote:  

(03-22-2014 04:34 PM)BAMANBLAZERFAN Wrote:  

(03-22-2014 08:22 AM)LairDweller Wrote:  

(03-21-2014 10:34 PM)BAMANBLAZERFAN Wrote:  The "one and done" rule was an administrative device to help both colleges and the NBA with their public relations difficulties. All it will take is one lawsuit by a player and the courts will tell them to go back to the Moses Malone ruling that opened the NBA draft to high school graduates. He was the first and LeBron James was one of the last.

The reason football has its administrative rule of 3 years is because no athlete has filed suit challenging it. So far there has never been any high school football stars who have thought they could play in the NFL without college preparation. If there is ever a "Lebron James" football player who is willing to go to court over the rule, it will be history just like it was in basketball.

No court has ever ruled that any team can deny anyone the right to pursue a livelihood by playing a pro sport. As with Moses Malone, the court agreed it was his right to enter the NBA draft and he did.

There is an abundance of incorrect info in this post

Please help me get it right. What critical info did I get wrong?

For starters, Reggie Harding was the first high school player drafted to the NBA. Moses Malone went from high school to the ABA, about a decade later.

Now get into something CRITICAL -- a wrong name is not what my post was about. What was incorrect about the important info like the legal history? That is like "straining at gnats".

(03-22-2014 04:34 PM)BAMANBLAZERFAN Wrote:  

(03-22-2014 08:22 AM)LairDweller Wrote:  

(03-21-2014 10:34 PM)BAMANBLAZERFAN Wrote:  The "one and done" rule was an administrative device to help both colleges and the NBA with their public relations difficulties. All it will take is one lawsuit by a player and the courts will tell them to go back to the Moses Malone ruling that opened the NBA draft to high school graduates. He was the first and LeBron James was one of the last.

The reason football has its administrative rule of 3 years is because no athlete has filed suit challenging it. So far there has never been any high school football stars who have thought they could play in the NFL without college preparation. If there is ever a "Lebron James" football player who is willing to go to court over the rule, it will be history just like it was in basketball.

No court has ever ruled that any team can deny anyone the right to pursue a livelihood by playing a pro sport. As with Moses Malone, the court agreed it was his right to enter the NBA draft and he did.

There is an abundance of incorrect info in this post

Please help me get it right. What critical info did I get wrong?

Seriously? Multiple nfl guys have lost the battle in court. If you don't know about that, you probably shouldn't state it as fact.(here's a hint. Ohio state rb.)
You throw all this stuff out as fact when most is either incorrect or opinion.

(03-22-2014 05:06 PM)blazers9911 Wrote:  

(03-22-2014 04:34 PM)BAMANBLAZERFAN Wrote:  

(03-22-2014 08:22 AM)LairDweller Wrote:  

(03-21-2014 10:34 PM)BAMANBLAZERFAN Wrote:  The "one and done" rule was an administrative device to help both colleges and the NBA with their public relations difficulties. All it will take is one lawsuit by a player and the courts will tell them to go back to the Moses Malone ruling that opened the NBA draft to high school graduates. He was the first and LeBron James was one of the last.

The reason football has its administrative rule of 3 years is because no athlete has filed suit challenging it. So far there has never been any high school football stars who have thought they could play in the NFL without college preparation. If there is ever a "Lebron James" football player who is willing to go to court over the rule, it will be history just like it was in basketball.

No court has ever ruled that any team can deny anyone the right to pursue a livelihood by playing a pro sport. As with Moses Malone, the court agreed it was his right to enter the NBA draft and he did.

There is an abundance of incorrect info in this post

Please help me get it right. What critical info did I get wrong?

Seriously? Multiple nfl guys have lost the battle in court. If you don't know about that, you probably shouldn't state it as fact.(here's a hint. Ohio state rb.)
You throw all this stuff out as fact when most is either incorrect or opinion.

Th Ohio St RB did not bring suit before he entered OSU. He sued after being in OSU as a player and getting kicked off the team. "NFL guys" are not suing to enter the NFL directly from high school which is what I was talking about. Show me a case where a "Lebron James" type HIGH SCHOOL FB player has lost a court battle to enter the NFL draft without ever going to college.

You said "The reason football has it's administrative rule of 3 years is because no athlete has filed suit challenging it."

It's seems that was the main point. It's completely and totally wrong. Sure, the most famous incident involved a guy one year removed from high school...which doesn't change the point if your "fact." Even if it did, your topic sentence, as stated, is still incorrect
As others pointed out, that's not the only incorrect statement in your post. There was actually more that was untrue than there was true...yet, you spit it out as fact and get all pissed off when people point out where you're "wrong"--