Faithful At the Buzzer blogger readers, I have news. After our first year on the internet, I’ve decided that I’m going to follow college basketball’s example and declare myself “one and done.” That’s right, I’m going pro.

I mean, can you blame me? All of the sudden, I got a call from the Huffington Post saying that they wanted my hard-hitting blog action and were going to pay me a 6 figure salary. You can bet your buzzer that I’m going to take that job and leave my co-hosts in the dust to become a two-man show.

Sadly this scenario isn’t real, I just made it up. Huffington Post isn’t calling and since I didn’t win the lottery, riches aren’t coming my way. However, this choice is very real to all sorts of 19-year-old kids every year, and they’re told they’re wrong for wanting to take the money for their dream job.

The arguments on both sides have logic to them. The proponents of eliminating the “wait one year after high school” rule say that these kids have every right to try to enter the workplace when they are an 18-year-old kid. If they don’t make it, it would be like any other entrepreneur who fails at his business: he has to pick himself up and try again. Others want it to be even longer, say 2 or 3 years out of high school is a requirement. Their argument is that so many kids fail trying to leave college too early and are out on the streets since they have no other skills and no college education. Their second argument is that the quality of the game rises when the kids can spend more time in college to hone their skills and mature emotionally. Overall, this is true — the kids that stay a second year or more tend to be more rounded as players and have better fundamentals. Does this matter if you’re a physical freak like LeBron? No, not at all.

Anthony Davis is this year’s prime example. After leading Kentucky to the national championship on Monday, Davis is expected to be the #1 overall draft pick. He’s the exception to the rule. There are many other names out there that have lived in infamy after coming straight out of high school (Kwame Brown anyone? How about Sebastian Telfair? Eddy Curry?).

The funny thing about those guys? They’re in the NBA, and have been for years. Even though they aren’t stars along the line of a LeBron James or Kobe Bryant that came right out of high school, they still have had productive, financially lucrative careers. One of the most famous flops in NBA history is the aforementioned Kwame Brown. As a basketball player…he’s not that good, but in his career he’s made almost $60,000,000. $60 MILLION. One more time, 60. Million. Dollars. Pretty damn good for a flop. Even someone like Telfair, who wasn’t a high draft pick, has made $16 million in his career. Yes, I will take that.

The American in me says let the kids go, enter the draft whenever they want and succeed or flop depending on their work ethic. The basketball fan in me wants them to stay all four years so we can see the most rounded game possible on all levels (I do enjoy me some college basketball, unlike the rest of America apparently). But there is a simple solution to this problem, and it’s adopting baseball’s rule on the subject.

In baseball, kids are allowed to enter the MLB draft at the age of 18, or they can go to college. However, if they choose college, they cannot re-enter the draft for 3 years. This is a great method, because it gives us the best of both worlds. Those who are ready can enter the draft, and those who aren’t get the seasoning they need from college for three years. Tell me, where can you go wrong with that?

This is a debate that can go on and on, but I know if I were in that position to enter the NBA at 19, I’m taking off. Oh and Huffington Post, I meant what I said, I’m totally available. Just email me: David@atthebuzzershow.com. I await your offer!