Another Fix for the NCAA-NBA

Conquest Chronicles is a great USC blog that lends perspective on what's happening in Troy. It's part of a network called SB Nation and recently got a face-lift, making improvements to its functionality. I've been meaning to give the changes a big thumbs up. While I'm at it, I'd like to call attention to a recent post.

One of its contributors, DC Trojan, came up with yet another potential solution to the dysfunctional relationship between the NCAA and NBA (and NFL). I think it's noteworthy that a lot of people in the blogosphere have been coming up with productive, creative ways to address the shortcomings of the current system:

One way in which the NBA and the NFL can help is to institute central oversight of rookie contracts, with rookies represented by contract lawyers from a pool pre-qualified by the leagues. Players can hire an agent for endorsement purposes only after they have completed their contract with the team that drafted them. Agents who are caught attempting to circumvent these league rules become a reason for sanctions on the players who use them - in other words, Ornstein screws up under this rule, the veterans who use him are fined $10,000 a week until they break their relationship with him.

That might not fix everything and there are some feasibility questions on this one (including the NBA players union's role, which is addressed in the post), but it's ideas like this that need to jump from message boards to board rooms.