NBA Draft Losers: Are Unwanted Players Eligible to Return to College?

Players not picked for the NBA draft absolutely should be allowed to return to college to play. First and foremost, they are allowed to return to the university to continue their studies; why should they not be allowed to play because they were not picked in the NBA draft? By participating and hoping to get picked does not give them any type of unfair advantage by returning to college. They did nothing too immoral or unethical. It should not be held against them.

They made a career decision to take part in the NBA draft and it did not work out so let them return to college and take part in all of the activities that are afforded them. You can relate this to real world situations. If someone leaves an organization on good terms and some time later they decide they made a mistake and then reapply a lot of times that organization will rehire them especially if they were an outstanding worker. Of course there are those organizations that have a policy against rehiring previous employees. But I don't believe that is the norm.

The fact that a basketball player has hired an agent to represent them should not impact their status as a college basketball player if they never in fact made it to the NBA. A college education is supposed to help our young adults operate efficiently, effectively and professionally in the real world. I don't see how helping to shatter someone's life's dream helps to develop anyone for anything.

We should be realistic about this and understand that when our youth's make decisions it may not be in their own best interest if they have not received the necessary counseling, mentoring and coaching and sometimes even when all of these things have taken place mistakes will still be made. I think this should be looked at with an open mind. Our policy should be do whatever it takes to prepare our future leaders to function in society and give them all the motivation needed to pursue their goals and dreams and not become an obstacle presented to them by way of bureaucracy red tape and insisting on doing things the way they are because that's the way it's always been done.