Todays D-1-A basketball is becoming more watered down with each passing year/season, and this is becoming a bigger topic now more then ever before.
There's something very awkward about benefiting long term just because some schools don't recruit players as highly rated as other schools, and those same schools benefit due to their initial weaknesses in recruiting as oppose to their initial strengths in recruiting. Schools such as Wichita State, Gonzaga, Butler, ND, Dayton, Wisconsin, Northern Iowa etc. would all fall under the above category, but on the other hand to their credit they have in turn have made the most of this factor.
The one exception to the one & done rule not being as effected in a negative way is Kentucky, because they recruit on another level right now compared to everyone else.
I say that high school players should either be able to turn pro right from high school if they desire to do that, or they should have to stay in college at least 3 years if they sign a NLOI.
This notion of a student-athlete who only stay in college for one year is a farce. These one & done players are merely rented players.
Now I know the same thing can apply to D-1-A football, but the big difference is that when you lose two or three players early out of your starting 22 players in football it doesn't effect you as much as when you lose two in basketball which is 40% of your starting line-up.
[Q]: What can be done to help bring back the level of D-1-A competition that was much more prominent 20 or so years ago? There's no easy solutions though. Lets discuss...
This post was edited on 3/23 1:22 PM by buki919
There's something very awkward about benefiting long term just because some schools don't recruit players as highly rated as other schools, and those same schools benefit due to their initial weaknesses in recruiting as oppose to their initial strengths in recruiting. Schools such as Wichita State, Gonzaga, Butler, ND, Dayton, Wisconsin, Northern Iowa etc. would all fall under the above category, but on the other hand to their credit they have in turn have made the most of this factor.
The one exception to the one & done rule not being as effected in a negative way is Kentucky, because they recruit on another level right now compared to everyone else.
I say that high school players should either be able to turn pro right from high school if they desire to do that, or they should have to stay in college at least 3 years if they sign a NLOI.
This notion of a student-athlete who only stay in college for one year is a farce. These one & done players are merely rented players.
Now I know the same thing can apply to D-1-A football, but the big difference is that when you lose two or three players early out of your starting 22 players in football it doesn't effect you as much as when you lose two in basketball which is 40% of your starting line-up.
[Q]: What can be done to help bring back the level of D-1-A competition that was much more prominent 20 or so years ago? There's no easy solutions though. Lets discuss...
This post was edited on 3/23 1:22 PM by buki919
