One of his ideas is very interesting.
3. Every player who is named on any of the lists is to receive a $1,000 advance against his honorarium to play for his team. (The costs here are picked up by the respective GMs. A kid on all 20 lists will cost a general manager $50. If he alone nominates another prospect he's on the hook for the whole grand but at least he knows that he can alone draft him.)
4. The $1,000 payment should be enough to void NCAA eligibility. Therefore, once a player cashes a cheque, he's out of the NCAA mix. The major junior teams can pass along proof of the payments to the NCAA head office and, if they want to really jump-start it, to rival coaches who were reportedly recruiting the prospect. If he doesn't cash the cheque he's ineligible for the draft. He is placed on a suspended list and must wait a year to re-apply.
One you are forcing these kids to commit to the next four years of their life. Do we need to that much pressure on a kid when they are under so much scrutiny before they hit puberty?
I still think there will be loopholes for the upper tiered clubs to get who they want. Remember Austin Watson writing letters to every OHL team not to draft him because he was going to Maine? Under Joyce's provision, prospect A could tell 17 GMs he's definitely going the NCAA. He could tell the Hunters, Kitchener, and Windsor he's would like to play in the OHL. Those three teams would be recruiting the same players.
My next question is why risk losing a big name talent to your biggest competitor? Does the NCAA care that Michigan, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Denver, Boston College, and Boston University dominate every year and American International College, Alabama-Huntsville, Canisius, and Sacred Heart don't make the Frozen Four? The NCAA doesn't because the elite teams are good for the game.
Why can't the OHL accept that a couple of teams will be at the top every year? The less "attractive" teams could take a risk and draft an elite talent to block another team drafting him. Val d'Or of the QMJHL did that two years ago when they took Louis LeBlanc before Patrick Roy got his hands on him. Val d'Or tied to get him to commit but it didn't workout and traded his rights to the Chicoutimi Sagueneens.
The worse can happen you trade the rights and get something for him. What a concept. Maybe the OHL can make an elite prospect list where teams send names who they consider elite but not playing in the OHL. Whoever is on that list could be traded for a first round pick. Team A has Player A (elite player) and Team B (Kitchener, London, Windsor) trades for him. Team A could ask for Team B's 1st Round pick as compensation. This wouldn't work for players aleady in the OHL.
That's My Take
(Nathan also is a writer for Maineiacs Post to Post and the Maine Hockey Journal. He can be reached at fourniern@students.nescom.edu)
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