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When would this go into effect?

A change like this would have a few trickle down effects: Colleges would be able to retain elite, top recruits out of the high school ranks without fear of losing kids immediately to the MLB Draft. To me, it reads as the MLB wanting to use college baseball more as a developmental source for its top product. I bet you see a low level of college A-ball wiped out. I also read it as schools with strong developmental histories would greatly benefit from this change. The SEC, Carolina schools, California schools, etc. We will see what happens. But could certainly increase the level of talent across the board at the college ball level.

I want a super conference or major realignment so Tech can get left out (because nobody forgot what they did). How funny would it be if Houston, Baylor, TCU, SMU, OSU all found homes and Tech got left out?

"What we did today was say we're not going to let the most powerful, richest conferences dictate to the rest of America what's going to happen to 500,000 athletes," Cantwell said during the Commerce Committee voting session. This is a direct quote from the bills co-sponsor (M.Cantwell, Senator from Washington state). This pretty much captures the essence and the perspective of the senator(s) pushing this bill through the legislative process. Notice Sen Cantwell doesn’t even mention anything about the bill’s other major features (transfer rules, compensation issues, anti-trust exemption), but instead is singularly focused on protecting the poor little 500,000 athletes from the big, bad P2 conferences (SEC / B1G). Like it or not, this is the prevailing narrative and clearly this is how the legislation is being framed. Whether or not this becomes the law of the land is still to be determined, but we are certainly not winning the battle of public opinion here.

I’m just a bill, I’m just a bill, sitting here on Capital Hill…

yea it got a little weird

Yes. Both will turn 21 before Aug. 1, 2027.

They're gone. They'll both be early-round picks.

AI says 2001 22 year old Kobe would kill any year Luka 1v1.

Now we got fat white boys like Luka, slow goobers like Jokic, and unathletic chumps like Curry hyped as the "best" players. That's why nobody cares what happens now. They need to go back to the pre-2001 rules and run a real man's league.

So players won't be able to go straight from high school, but they could leave college sooner. I don't mind that change

https://www.cbssports.com/mlb/news/mlb-draft-proposal-high-school-international-cba-negotiations/ MLB proposing changes to draft eligibility in new CBA, eliminating high school eligibility and lowering the draft age to 20. Would be huge for college programs and Texas if it goes through.

They changed the rules to allow for the Euro Step. They changed the rules to make pansies happy. From 1980-2010 the best athletes in the world played in the NBA. Now pencil dicks rule basketball.

You had me with the first sentence. You kind of lost me after that.

Does anybody really care about the NBA. It is not even close to the game of basketball that I grew up playing. By the way can you define what a foul is and how many steps it takes to be called traveling or walking? Sheesh!!! Hook Em

Elite defender.

Any word on targets? Catcher and OF should be prioritized🙏🏻.

I'll admit that I don't know what 1v1 to 21 means. When I played 1v1 for money in South Oak Cliff in the 1990s, we always played make-it-take it to 11 by 1 gotta win by two.

LSU Board bad hurt right now. Picture from Instagram with Easton on a boat on Lake Austin. And a day early 🤣

They’ll both be gone. Both are projected top 3 round picks

Interesting that the MLB is proposing changes to the MLB draft format. Their proposal essentially gets rid of highschool players being draft eligible and allows players to enter the draft after their sophomore year of college.

He’s a draft eligible sophomore.. So you’d have to worry about him going pro. But he’s unbelievable behind the plate