This just flat out sucks. If a player gets drafted and makes it known he won't play for the team, other teams are going to low ball that team and they really have to choose if they take whatever they can get or just let the player not play. I get that the player has the right to decide if he wants to keep going to school but that really puts the drafting team at a disadvantage.
I think the team that drafts them should just own their rights. If the player gets to the point of "becoming a UFA" the drafting team should get a first or second from the team that signs them. It's a lot but it'll really force the player to play for the team that drafts them or at least compenste the team that drafted them.
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