Marquette Sports Law Review Volume 6 Article 8 Issue 1 Fall Smoke, Mirrors, and NCAA Bylow 12.2.4.2.1: An Analysis of College Basketball's Thirty-Day Rule and the Continued Exploitation of College Cagers John P. Gillard Jr. Follow this and additional works at: http://scholarship.law.marquette.edu/sportslaw Part of the Entertainment and Sports Law Commons Repository Citation John P. Gillard Jr., Smoke, Mirrors, and NCAA Bylow 12.2.4.2.1: An Analysis of College Basketball's Thirty-Day Rule and the Continued Exploitation of College Cagers, 6 Marq. Sports L. J. 173 (1995) Available at: http://scholarship.law.marquette.edu/sportslaw/vol6/iss1/8 This Comment is brought to you for free and open access by the Journals at Marquette Law Scholarly Commons. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. COMMENT SMOKE, MIRRORS, AND NCAA BYLAW 12.2.4.2.1: AN ANALYSIS OF COLLEGE BASKETBALL'S TIURTY-DAY RULE AND THE CONTINUED EXPLOITATION OF COLLEGE CAGERS I. INTRODUCTION Voshon Lenard starred for the University of Minnesota basketball team during the years 1991-94.1 Throughout the winter of 1993 and spring of 1994, Lenard maintained that he would return to Minnesota for his senior season. 2 However, on May 10, 1994, Lenard had a change of heart and decided to enter the National Basketball Association ("NBA") draft.3 When Lenard announced his decision at a press confer- ence on May 11, it appeared that his collegiate career was over.4 Draft prognosticators predicted that Lenard would be selected in the late first-round or early second-round.5 However, Lenard fell to the forty-sixth overall pick, late in the second round, where he was drafted by the Milwaukee Bucks.6 Milwaukee selected both Glenn Robinson of 1.