(02-27-2018 04:44 PM)ken d Wrote:  

(02-27-2018 04:35 PM)RutgersGuy Wrote:  

(02-27-2018 03:38 PM)Captain Bearcat Wrote:  I 100% agree with him. There's no reason to force players to become "student-athletes" for one year if they want to go to the NBA.

Losing 10-20 one-and-done players will not hurt college basketball; on the contrary it will be a good thing. NCAA basketball did quite well before the NBA instituted an age limit in 2006.

Not really. It lost out on tons of players who had no business entering the draft.

Can anybody name any of those players? And how many is a ton? Losing out on those players doesn't seem to have diminished the popularity of college basketball very much, if at all. It could probably be said of some of those players that they had no business entering college either.

A ton = 2000 lbs. Assuming each player weighs between 200 and 250 pounds, then five or four players. Actually, shorter varsity eligibility might help. Make the kids play a year of freshman ball before they ascend to the heights, just like in the old days. The "student athletes" have a year to prove themselves academically and on the court or field (football). If they can't do either, those are the breaks.