The whole 1-and-Done thing is a joke. The 5 stars and their money-grubbing families/hangers-on should just sign a G-league contract
out of high-school and go from there. It would save everyone this lame Kabuki One-and-Done Theater. The 5 stars make a mockery of college as they know they're not going to stay and I suspect that very few 1-and-Doners actually ever earn their degrees. I'm sure that some do, but my bet is most don't.
The coaches who recruit the 5 stars are mostly wasting their time as well, as unless your roster has the near-perfect mix of 5 stars and talented returning players, you're not going to win the national title. Look at Cal at Kentucky: he lands 3-5 five stars just about ever year and he's got one national title at Kentucky--and that a long time ago. Not to mention the fact that you've got to start with the basics again every year because you're 5 stars have left and you've got a new batch of naive freshmen every year. Look at Duke: Coach K's best years and best teams were in the first half of his Duke tenure, when he had more veteran teams. Since Duke switched to signing a bunch of 5 stars every year, I'm quite sure they've become less competitive than they used to be. We beat Duke in the tourney because we had a veteran team and they were very young. Fifteen years ago, we would not have beaten Duke.
And finally, I'd be curious to know how many of the 1-and-Doners over the last, say, 5 years are NBA starters right now. My bet is, not that many. How many are all-stars? Even fewer. Most of them are spending most of their time on NBA benches or playing in the G League.
Not good for the college. Not good for the degree. Not good for the team or the coaches, generally. And not even good for the NBA teams that draft them.
You can develop faster playing pro basketball full time as opposed to college basketball, to be sure, which is all the more reason why 5 stars should just sign with the G League out of high school and let's stop this 1-and-Done charade.