I don't mean to derail this thread but, I had hoped Trump would "Drain the Swamp" but did anyone imagine that this would start and end with college basketball?
NCAA BASKETBALL CORRUPTION SCHEME
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Please don't derail one of the only good threads going right now on CF.
They got rid of it because that was a system that was doing more damage to the league than anything else. I think using the G-League for this purpose makes a lot of sense, but I doubt the NBA makes that same mistake twice.
An interesting discussion will be coming up...The commish wants 20, while the players want 18...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...e-nbas-age-limit-rule/?utm_term=.62fb408b6646
my thought, use the Gleague like minor league baseball. Most of those guys now have shot at actually being in the NBA. iIf you let teams draft out of high school you can put them in the G league to develop.
My only thought would be that with the age range in the NBA, there's a lot of muscle mass difference between 18-yr-olds and 22-25 year olds, also a lot of upper level experience over the average high school player (or even the elite high school ballers). While the kids no doubt want the money & the fame right away, I can only think that the injury risk is much much greater. There will always be one or two LeBrons that prove me wrong, but the majority will not have his level of success, will likely not retain much (if any) of the money they earn, and will end up pushing thirty with a broken body and few job skills outside of putting a ball through a hoop.
I know I'm probably saying something all y'all will disagree with, and that's okay with me. Just voicing an opinion.
That's why the G League would ideally become a true farm system, where 18-22 year old prospects can get paid (above the table) to develop and prepare for the NBA game if that's the route they choose. Makes more sense than forcing them to give a money machine like the NCAA a year of free labor.
True...but do you trust the NBA to not use/abuse them as well? Not much I can do about it though, except wish someone was looking out for the kids and not what money the kids can make for them (and that includes a LOT of parents).
I think it will eventually go this route, and after a few years of exodus straight from HS it will level itself out and go back to around the amount of players that would come out per year before the rule change.
No, but I don't think the NCAA is after their best interests either. With the current system in place, the best a parent can do for their kid is get them into a program with a coach they can trust to watch out for them. And those coaches are, unfortunately, few and far between.
Since people are talking about alternatives to the NCAA and athlete development, I throw this one out there.... An interesting article about how European soccer clubs develop talent, and bringing that model to FC Dallas.
https://www.theringer.com/nba/2017/9/21/16341796/nba-aau-fc-dallas-player-development
https://www.theringer.com/nba/2017/9/21/16341796/nba-aau-fc-dallas-player-development
Sorry if this was posted already, but thought it was funny...Cuonzo Martin says he doesn’t wait for compliance office to get involved to keep program clean. "I am compliance."
That quote will go down in history if Martin gets busted in this investigation.
Hiring the recruit's father for a coaching position avoids the need to commit the crimes the FBI is looking at. Well played, Cuonzo
I doubt that happens. If a kid goes to college they can figure out quick how good they really are. There are a lot of kids that come out of HS that think they can be a one and done, A few are, some play a few years of college, so never make the NBA.
Good take from John Feinstein
https://www.washingtonpost.com/spor...a_story.html?tid=a_inl&utm_term=.25d7a5672342
https://www.washingtonpost.com/spor...a_story.html?tid=a_inl&utm_term=.25d7a5672342
Feinstein suggests the best starting point for getting the NCAA under control that I have seen:
The NCAA needs to be restructured into three separate entities: One to run football; one to run men’s basketball; one to run nonrevenue sports. Make rules for each that are enforceable and give whomever is in charge the power to make cheaters pay.
Because, as he notes. cheating currently is rewarded. It works without really much in the way of repercussions even when someone is caught.
