Has the worst graduation rates compared to all other NCAA sports. Its an ongoing problem that only the NBA can remedy. I think a 3 year rule would be beneficial to all parties. The NCAA gets some consistency in the teams that they field, and the NBA gets more time to evaluate prospects. Not to mention that a player coming off 3 years of college ball will more likely be able to see playing time right away after making it to the NBA.

Man oh man, I really think you are damned if you do damned if you don’t. It seems like its really hard to tell how extending the college stay to two or three years will impact college basketball and the NBA as a whole. It can’t really be compared to CFB as there just isn’t a worldwide market for football like there is for basketball. Although I think it is the worst possible out come, hopefully we won’t be seeing a mass exodus of US talent overseas!

I have been around the Basketball scene since to 70’s and the overall attitude has totally changed because of agents and runners. Most of the guys I have played with or know were geared to go to college get a degree and hope to get drafted. Now it is all about the money and it doesn’t have anything to do with the love of the game. But it all comes down to the NBA and not really the NCAA because if the NBA says you can’t play without a degree then they will go to college otherwise it is a crapshoot.

The money attitude that has governed professional sports has diluted the product to the crappy thing it is today. If you look at NBA basketball back in the 80s and early 90s you can see a steady decline in people playing defense, and players hitting an open jump shot.. It drives me nuts that a team full of professionals got their asses handed to them in international play. College ball was necessary to build really great NBA players. The only exceptions to the rule being LeBron James. I wouldn’t count Kobe because he went through some growing pains in the beginning.

Before the owners got together to lobby David Stern regarding drafting players out of high school, there were a few player busts. Moses Malone, Darryl Dawkins, KG, Kobe, and only a handful of others were truly the only players that came out of high school that ACTUALLY paid dividends to their owners as far as championships and team revenue was concerned. And much like the “salary-cap”, which stipulates (loosely) “please, help us from ourselves. make it so that WE CAN’T over-spend and become insanely profligate with our money/assets by pouring ridiculous amounts of money on players who might not pan out in the long run”. The salary-cap and the one-and-done rules are almost one and the same. To help the owners from being foolish. There is nothing that can empirically bears out any altruistic intent on behalf of players or young players with either of them. It is a brainwashing that unfortunately has most in the media and the general public as it’s believers.

Go back to the way it was. Before the unbroken wheel tried to get fixed.

By the way frak, lackadaisackal international play by the previous 3 Olympic teams had nothing to do with an open jump shot. And certainly nothing to do with “fundamentals” (I just love it when old-school cats knock new-school play?)- it had everything to do with USA Basketball not being able to field a complete team with actual international warm-up games up and until a few months before actual Olympic play. As well as the fact that Lithuanians, Germans, Greeks, Spanish, Argentinean, Italian, even Puerto Rican players are 100 TIMES BETTER THAN THOSE SAME PLAYERS FROM a decade ago (from each respective country that I’ve mentioned). The gap between international players and American players is now a measurably slight gap, as opposed to the original 1988 Dream Team that DOMINATED.

This Olympic USA basketball team has been jelling for almost 2 years, with more than 10 international warm-ups, AND they have Coach K. It’s THE TEAM, not the jump shot or the back door pass.