Basketball-What's Missing?

[DJD]

I touched on this a month ago with a post about how boring UK games are to me. I'm a fan of competition and watching a blowout isn't fun to me. I know to many diehard fans it is but not me. I understand you guys are talking about college basketball in general but I just don't watch enough of it anymore.

Rivalry week in college sports are my favorite games. The in state rivalry games are great as well. I mean in football who doesnt watch Auburn/Alabama!?!?!? Anyway, the game has to evolve because the kids are bigger faster and more physically mature all the time. To be honest I haven't watched enough games to see a lower attendance.

[psprowler]

The dribble drive dish philosophy on offense has made the game less enjoyable for me. I miss motion offense and the lost notion of a true center.

[MrSplitshot]

As long as Kentucky is undefeated and kicking everybody's asses...college basketball is missing nothing to me. All is right with the world. LMAO

I'll get back to you after the Cats lose next. Hopefully you won't hear from me in awhile.

[Tyme2fish]

One and dones IMO have ruined the game. I liked the old days when a player stayed until he graduated.

Here's an idea. If a recruited player goes to the pros after only one year, the school loses a scholarship for the following year.

[kygorski]

Basket ball at the college level is another name for pro farm teams. Also the moral fibre of the players has gone down also. Its only a matter of time before some school fields a whole watusi tribe.

[sweetwater]

One and dones IMO have ruined the game. I liked the old days when a player stayed until he graduated.

Here's an idea. If a recruited player goes to the pros after only one year, the school loses a scholarship for the following year.

I don't think you should punish the schools for something that is out of their control. The kids leave college for the NBA to make the money while they can and I don't blame them. They know they can go back to school and get their degree after their NBA career is over and some of them do that very thing. Or at least the smart ones do.

[mhall]

Bobby Knight roasted the great one recently and I happen to agree with him as well. Coaches do what ever they want and when the Poo hits the fan they bolt and do it somewhere else.

Clean up the game make everybody play by the same rules and if you are going to have an NBA farm club start playing the players out in the open instead of behind closed doors.

College ball isn't college ball anymore and never will be again and yes the one and done's have helped destroy the game.

[mhall]

Meant to type paying the players not playing

[Tyme2fish]

I don't think you should punish the schools for something that is out of their control. The kids leave college for the NBA to make the money while they can and I don't blame them. They know they can go back to school and get their degree after their NBA career is over and some of them do that very thing. Or at least the smart ones do.

I respectfully disagree that it's out of the school's control. The coach and his/her recruiters know very well which super star recruit is going to be a one and done. The coach is employed by the school,therefore it IS under control of the school.

[roadrunner]

What hurts it for me is the dribble penetration and all they have to do is jump into the defender and go to the foul line. You can't defend any more the offense can initiate the contact and the foul goes against the defense. I also hate the fact that the officials spend all the time looking at the monitor to see if it is a flagrant one or two and after all the time looking and discussing I disagree with over 1/2 of there calls. I think if it is not intentional use of the elbows then it is not a foul.

[sweetwater]

I respectfully disagree that it's out of the school's control. The coach and his/her recruiters know very well which super star recruit is going to be a one and done. The coach is employed by the school,therefore it IS under control of the school.

If that were to be the case then no Div-1 school would risk punishment by recruiting a kid that had even a remote chance of leaving in one year. In that scenario the best high school players would actually be punished because they have worked very hard to become the best. What would happen to the kids that did have a remote or better chance of becoming a one and done? Would they get lucky like Kobe, Dwight or LeBron and be drafted out of high school? Maybe. Would they lose a chance at getting a higher education and/or become a tax paying NBA player? More than likely. The problem does NOT lie at the college level, it lies in the greed of the NBA's ruling body and their quest for more of everything. They are the ones that have the power to stop the one and done trend with one rule and it is a simple rule to enforce. You can't play in the NBA until you are at least 20 years old. In the broad spectrum of things college basketball is not very important when compared with the welfare of young adults. Their future and them being able to become contributing members of society far outweighs any concerns we may have about watching boring basketball on TV. If that means a few players becoming a one and done then I am willing to sacrifice a little quality of my entertainment time.

[DJD]

I respectfully disagree that it's out of the school's control. The coach and his/her recruiters know very well which super star recruit is going to be a one and done. The coach is employed by the school,therefore it IS under control of the school.

I just watched a sports program about Coach Cal and the tag line associated with him on the one and done mentality. He said who is he to stop a young man from leaving and he said he doesn't try and make them stay either. Take what you will from that.

The also asked Coach K of Duke on his input with one and done. He said they now actively go for these type of players because why not? They have to play against them all the time so if you can't beat them join them. It is the way things are done now.

IMO...I think the kids should have to play for a college for 2 years minimum and no more straight from high school players to the NBA, of course high school kids going to the NBA will take some action by the NBA to stop it and I doubt they will do that.

The college kids playing 2 years will give some of the mid major colleges a better chance since there are only so many positions on a team. UK, Duke, Kansas, NC, FL or UL can't take them all. They have to go somewhere so the schools who don't traditionally get the studs will now have a chance and the games will be alot more exciting.