Steve Kerr wrote an opinion piece on why the NBA should adopt a 20-year-old age limit for Grantland**.  Even if you don't care about professional basketball, this is a textbook example of someone you'd initially think should have a good handle on the subject, but makes such an insane series of arguments that you're forced to conclude that he's blinded by his own success into thinking that the NCAA isn't a broken system.  The most amazing statement he makes is:

Why should NBA franchises assume the responsibility and financial burden of player development when, once upon a time, colleges happily assumed that role for them? 

Wow.  Just... Wow.


To be fair, maybe Kerr believes that the NCAA should cease the fiction of "amateur" college athletics, and allow athletes to be paid for playing in the same way that any other work-study student is paid for rendering services to the university, but since that's not how it was done "once upon a time" Kerr's fairy tale memory, I won't bet on it.



** Back in the dark ages, I went to ESPN.com for box scores, and then I discovered Ralph Wiley, and then Bill Simmons started writing for them; and then Wiley died.  So for lack of anything else to do when I'm done looking at box scores, I at least glance at whatever's on Grantland.