One of the big headlines from this years college basketball off season has been the decision of Brandon Jennings to go play over seas in Italy, instead of playing 1 year of mandatory college ball. Jennings, from the Oak Hill Academy in Virginia was the top prospect by ESPN.com and originally commited to Arizona before there was a problem with his SAT scores. Then he decided to go play in Italy and is currently living in Roma (according to his myspace page. Jennings is the first player to take this route to the NBA. So now the question is now how does this affect the NCAA. At first rection this may seem to hurt the NCAA, I mean who wants to have their top players to go play in Europe. So in the short term this may leave the NCAA with a little sore spot, but in the long term this could be a very good thing for NCAA. Let's examine the current 1-and-done rule. Young talented players need only to go to college for 1 year and they don't have to show any commitment to a program or go to classes the entire 2nd term. This leads to record numbers of freshmen getting drafted (See 2008 NBA Draft). So now with Jennings leading the pack for freshmen to come, maybe the NCAA will get rid of the stupid 1-and-done rule. So what should the rule be? My proposal is that either you can go to the NBA straight from high school or you can go to college but once you decide to go to college you must stay for 3 years. Hopefully someone from the NCAA is reading this. Send me your opinion...
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You realize that if your proposed rule went into place, probably the top 20 prospects in the country would declare for the draft every year out of high school?
no they would not it would be closer to 10, I don't think that 20 high school players have ever committed to NBA draft...plus this would be way better for college hoops because it would give programs stability
I don't mind the one-and-done fad. College basketball is so much better when you get the top freshmen to play, even if it's only for a year. Too many awful high school players went pro the past few years and it diluted the NBA. Having the 19-year-old age limit keeps those borderline talents in college for at least a year.
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