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Ben Bolch of the Los Angeles Times has excellent examination this morning of the so-called one-and-done rule, its ramifications on both the college and pro game.
One tidbit that’s making waves this morning: It’s not likely to change.
So much for those rumors (hopes) that the NBA’s next Collective Bargaining Agreement would include some sort of alteration of the rule.
Bolch writes:
NCAA executives and coaches have long professed a desire to follow the baseball model, where players may be drafted out of high school but once they enter college must wait three years to be eligible for the draft again. That doesn’t appear likely to happen any time soon.
According to multiple people around the NBA, the league’s minimum-age guidelines that require players to be at least 19 and one year removed from high school are not expected to be altered in the coming months as part of negotiations for a new collective bargaining agreement.
We’ll see. If the same unnamed source is behind this assertion and the one about the AAU being better the NCAA for scouts to evaluate prospects, then we can safely dismiss it.
I believe the rumors of a 2 year rule have negatively impacted our recruiting. Kids in the 2012 group aren’t coming because they see our current incoming class as blocking their chances to play their freshman year.
Having just researched the new SEC/Big East thing – it is now a “challenge” rather than an invitational and will apparently be played on home courts. So that means going to UConn or Pitts home court, or they coming to Ruff Arena (oops, Presidential mistake).