Volkerball posted:

I don't know about baseball, but in hockey and soccer, college sports are irrelevant. If you have to go to college to play, it means you didn't make the cut at 18 and are looking at an uphill battle just to end up as a role player on a semi-pro team. Most of the good players start getting paid at 16 with teams who have far less income, and stay there until they get promoted to the AHL or NHL, or a pro soccer team buys them or promotes them. College is just a piss poor farm system because of all the strings attached. You can't even own the rights to a player and send them back for a developmental year in the minors because that would besmirch the universities reputation as an institution of learning.