Original Airdate: Friday, September 25, 2009. This is a part of the 93-Second Sports Shot series. 93-Second Sports Shots air weekday nights at 6pm.

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As I was saying in my earlier reports today, now Chicago Bull's guard Derrick Rose admitted today that he did take the SATs before he went to play for Memphis. This comes after Memphis's NCAA run of the 2007-08 season was invalidated because it was reported Derrick Rose had a stand in take the SATs for him. Apparently, Derrick Rose had to get a combined 840 on his SATs in order to be given admission to the University of Memphis, and was unable to do so. After one year of playing college ball, he decided to enter the NBA draft, where the Chicago Bulls took him first overall in the 2008 draft, and subsequently won rookie of the year in the NBA.

I think “the Derrick Rose fiasco” is the perfect example of flawed rules in the NBA and NCAA.

NCAA sports prides themselves in creating Student-Athletes, rather than Athlete-Students, but because of the One-Year-Out-of-High School rule implemented by NBA commissioner David Stern, high school athletes are eligible for the NBA draft one year after they graduate high school. This leaves a star high school athlete without many options. The only real option is to go to college for a year, with the intent of becoming a college hoops star, then enter the draft. So as much the NCAA does not want to admit it, they are creating an Athlete-Student, rather than a Student Athlete.

Other players, like Brandon Jennings, opted to play in Italy for a year after playing in High School. This was a unique approach to David Stern's rule, and was never done before. After just being drafted to the Milwaukee Bucks, it is still unknown whether the European game is capable of developing star players like the college game has done in the past.

So when the NCAA decided to take away all of Memphis's accomplishments from the 2007-08 season, the NCAA must ask themselves whether this is really the right punishment. Whether Derrick Rose, who is clearly not a scholar, took his SATs or not, he is in the NBA making more money than most people can dream of ever making. I encourage everyone to go on Youtube and watch videos of interviews with Derrick Rose, and you will understand his unintelligence. But, if you do further research on Derrick Rose, you will notice that he gives a large portion of his salary to developing inner city Chicago, and spends time teaching less fortunate children how to play the game.

So whether he took his SATs or not, Memphis did help create a successful person, and should not be penalized. The NCAA and NBA practically forced him to cheat the SATs, if he did. Because if he didn't, he would not currently be in the NBA. I'm sure he wouldn't regret his decision.

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