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Originally Posted by Party Elephant
Jesus, no. A very vocal minority wanted to fire Treliving.
Seems like a pretty convoluted way to end up on the NCAA path but I guess it's possible. Again, are there any real world examples of this or is it just hypothetical?
I agree with all of this except Fox being an outlier. Fox is in that niche of college players who are good enough to have multiple teams interested in signing him as a UFA. It's been a legitimate option for him for at least the last year or so. The Harvard degree only incentivises it further.
There may only be one or two every year, or every other year even, but it has happened numerous times under the current rules and in all likelihood will happen more in the future.
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i'd have to see if there are any cases of this, as most kids want to be in the NHL, so they sign if they are offered a contract and pop the champagne.
Within the rules as they are written however, if you have amateur status you have eligibility in the NCAA. There are numerous examples in other sports, even guys that have signed and played double A baseball going back into college to play football.
Kyle Murray did just that with the As, before deciding he'd rather play football... not sure how the eligibility worked there, but it did.
it remains to be seen whether this is something that becomes more prevalent or not... Fox is a kid that blew up a bit in college, otherwise he would not have fallen to the 3rd round.
NHL teams know about the rules, but still continue to draft kids going to the NCAA... so until the CBA changes, its a bit of 'buyer beware' imo...
At the end of the day, these kids aren't submitting their names to be drafted; they get drafted whether they want to or not...People may hate it and not wish him well, but Fox hasn't done anything wrong except for offending a couple of fanbases...