Should we be thanking the NBA?

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Should we be thanking the NBA for making the rule that kids have to be one year removed from HS before they are eligible for the draft. The college game has been elevated this year by players like Greg Oden, Kevin Durant, Brandon Wright, Ty Lawson, etc.. That rule is the best thing that has happened to college basketball in quite some time.
 
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Yes. From a standpoint of just looking at the game, I think all kids coming out of HS should have to play a compulsory 3-4 years of college ball before they can go to the NBA.

However, it's usually not that simple. Yeah, some kids in the college game are priveleged ones, such as Noah for Florida. Some college athletes, like our own Meachem, have families that lead tougher lives, and could benefit greatly from leaving the college ranks early and starting their professional careers ASAP.

I want the age limit in the NBA removed all together. Some kids really are just ready for the bigs straight out of high school. It needs to be their responsibility to determine wether or not their game is at a level where they can step into the fire like that.

I disagree with this for football, though. The body of a 17-18 year old is just not ready for the rigor of work in the NFL, and at leas 2-3 years of working on the game in college is mandatory. I don't think any player ever has been NFL-ready out of high school. The talent gap from high school to football to pros is enormous in football, while it is pretty small in basketball.
 
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I don't care one way or the other for the age rule in basketball, but it sure is fun watching those guys excel.
 
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I would much rather not have played Oden... :no:

I'm not sure what to think about this rule. I'm not so sure it would have been fun for other teams if Lebron stayed in college.

Imagine if Lebron stayed all 4 years. I am assuming he would have went to OSU. They would have been loaded with Lebron as a senior and Oden now. Can you say favorites.
 
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tvolsfan said:
I would much rather not have played Oden... :no:

I'm not sure what to think about this rule. I'm not so sure it would have been fun for other teams if Lebron stayed in college.

Imagine if Lebron stayed all 4 years. I am assuming he would have went to OSU. They would have been loaded with Lebron as a senior and Oden now. Can you say favorites.
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Don't get me wrong, I wasn't happy about having to play Oden this year either, but I still think it is good for the college game for these guys to play at least one year. As for Lebron, he would have definitely been a one and done and would probably have been the best freshman the college game had seen.
 
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Like I said, some guys are just ready for the NBA at age 17. They're definitley few and far inbetween, maybe one high school senior in the country per year. But they're out there. Why not let them go and try to make their millions?
 
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milohimself said:
Like I said, some guys are just ready for the NBA at age 17. They're definitley few and far inbetween, maybe one high school senior in the country per year. But they're out there. Why not let them go and try to make their millions?
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I don't have any problem at all with a guy going straight from HS to the NBA. As far as I am concerned, they can go to the NBA when they're 10 or 40. I am just happy that the NBA passed the rule that they have to be one year removed from HS before being eligible for the NBA draft so we can see them play at least one year of college ball.

I wonder how long it will take before some guy goes to a developmental league for a year instead of going to college?
 
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simply from a college bball standpoint, yeah, it's a good thing.

think about the guys you never got see play in march madness......garnett, bryant, james etc....

that's a completely selfish view, granted, at the time, what was best for those guys was going pro, so i don't blame the player whatsoever.

but there was a point where college bball was going a little downhill. the athleticism was down a big because some of these great talents were going straigh to the NBA.

for some teams, this rule has forced them to change their strategy. Next year's UNC team will not resemble this year's team......you really need to be able to recruit if you want to get that kind of talent in your school's gates.

the other thing to consider is that even though you had some guys like mentioned above that were really ready for the NBA, some of, in fact most of, the kids that go directly to the NBA aren't ready and suffered for it since they didn't go to college. i think the rule is good for the majority of the kids so that they can test ther metal against similar competition. and some may find that they weren't ready and the year of college was a good thing and others are simply biding their time...in which one year may not make that much of a difference.....
 
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Agreed, jakez. That rule is basically going to put recruiting at a premium in the college game; All the big-time players won't be sticking around long enough to develop that much in college. When it's a bunch of freshmen, whoever is the most talented will win. Not who has the best coaching.
 
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milohimself said:
Agreed, jakez. That rule is basically going to put recruiting at a premium in the college game; All the big-time players won't be sticking around long enough to develop that much in college. When it's a bunch of freshmen, whoever is the most talented will win. Not who has the best coaching.
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yep...which is why i think what Roy Williams has been able to do in such a short amount of time at UNC is fairly remarkable. two years removed from a NT with a COMPLETELY different team poised to do it again. and next year, it will be another completely different team.

long gone are the days were Jr./Sr. leadership is the BIGGEST factor in college bball.

Duke is sort of learning that lesson right now.

and it's not like these kinds of NBA ready kids are falling off trees......the programs that can prove to get a kid ready in two years tops will be the ones that reap those benefits. If a guy truly thinks he's ready now, he won't want "wait his turn" as a jr. or sr. like so many programs still have to do.

that's not to say that an experience layden team can't make a legit run, just that it won't be the overriding factor or the most common thing in the future.
 
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that kevin durant is something else. he is clearly NBA material, but i have loved seeing him play
 
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