cwbytruckers
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Completing coursework is, literally, working towards a degree. If they were incapable, they'd fail out. Not sure how else you would police this
It's not that hard. Take away from the pool of available scholarships for every player that fails to complete legitimate course work. Once a player begins, then only he can use the spot for at least three years... maybe give ONE mulligan. So if you have a roster of 13 with 5 that leave after their freshman year, the next year (assuming none were seniors) you have 13 minus 5 (plus 1 mulligan) or 9 scholarships. That will spread the 1s and dones around all 300+ teams instead of concentrating them on a handful of rosters.
But if your concern is the number of one and dones and the resulting impact on academics, this doesn't really change any of that. It just changes the concentration, which is kind of like saying the NCAA should stop Alabama from getting all the good football recruits
Said differently, it seems like you're not making the top players focus on school more than they already do, you're just limiting their choice of schools.
Then you have to either punish all of them as if they are, or have some way of differentiating them (besides "completing course work," which is already done). That's what I'm saying is tougher
To them it's not a choice of schools, it's the minor league of the NBA. I don't care if individual players don't care to take advantage of their education. I'm saying it's a farce what Cal is doing. Every roster should be substantially made up of student-athletes. Otherwise it's an NBA minor league team and they have no business competing in the NCAA. The "C" stands for Collegiate.
Penalize the schools harshly if they recruit with large numbers of players incapable or uninterested in pursuing the academic opportunity. Sanction the schools not just for overloading with those going to the NBA after 1 or 2 years as well as those that overlaid with non-NBA bound players that are at a high risk of flunking out.
Flunking and incapable students are already screened out now. "Uninterested" is very subjective, and a lot of one and dones don't come into school planning to be. But they would still count toward the "overloading" and therefore get their schools sanctioned.
This seems like basically just "break up Kentucky and Duke." One-and-done teams have only won 2 of 7 championships since Cal got to Kentucky, so I don't really see how it's ruining the game
Do you guys see 8 wins left?? I think it's somewhat possible. I honestly don't know how to call our games. Very young and very streaky. I think I'd poop gold bricks if we won 18 games.
Remaining games:
Vs Kentucky W
Vs K state W
@ Auburn
@ Miss state
Vs Ole Miss
Vs Georgia
@ Kentucky
Vs Missouri
Vs Vanderbilt
@ Uscjr
@Lsu
Vs Alabama
So we should spread the one-and-dones around so the businesses can pretend to be more scholarly? It doesn't even change the overall number of bad students, just the distribution.
The one&done rule is bogus and BS. If a kid can go from HS to pro, let him them. Why should these kids basically be given an ultimatum of going to college for one year or play overseas one year when they could just get drafted out of HS? Requiring any amount of time removed from HS is complete BS. If the NBA is worried about the maturity level of young players, maybe they need to freaking scout harder and not hand out multi-million dollar contracts based on potential like they were UNICEF pennies.
I can't over emphasize just how much I agree with this post. Remember Wisconsin coach Bo Ryan's famous statement " we don't do rent a player ".They aren't all flunking out of a small group of schools.
I don't know how else I can say it. It's ruining the sport when a handful of teams load up their rosters with players that have no intention of graduating. Those are NBA minor league teams and they shouldn't be competing what are supposed to be teams made up of student-athletes.
They aren't all flunking out of a small group of schools.
I don't know how else I can say it. It's ruining the sport when a handful of teams load up their rosters with players that have no intention of graduating. Those are NBA minor league teams and they shouldn't be competing what are supposed to be teams made up of student-athletes.