OT: Ben Simmons is ineligible for Wooden Award
LSU is not going to let Ben Simmons be eligible for the Wooden Award. Simmons, the freshman and likely number 1 pick in the draft, has had an amazing year but he probably wasn't going to win it. There is a high chance it is going to be Buddy Hield winning it and if not him than Denzel Valentine.
Yup. He didn't start a game ofr LSU becuase of academic reasons
Simmons might've been phoning it in with his schoolwork/whatever, because everyone (including him) knows that he's going to be a #1 pick, and could potentially be a superstar in the NBA and make millions.
If that's what was waiting for me when I got done with college, I'd probably be less than focused on studying too.
If you knew you were a one-and-done and were almost assured a top 3 selection in the next years draft, there's not a chance in hell I'd be up late studying for exams. Stay eligible for a year and then go make millions
'xactly. I wish they'd go back to leting high schoolers go straight to the pros (or playgrounds). This system sucks.
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Trey Burke is not Ben Simmons.
I honestly don't think elite basketball players care much about accolades at the college level. If Simmons did he probably wouldn't have picked LSU in the first place.
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not sure how this is OT.. bc we're ignoring basketball now?
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Yea its interesting that a team can have the top overall pick and still be mediocre. I get than one person doesn't make a great team, but for basketball, it call make a huge difference (see Lebron's 2006 Cavs)
For all Beilein's recruiting complaints (and many are warranted), getting multiple 4 stars can get you a lot further than one top 5 recruit. Now, if Michigan can get both, we'd be in business :)
A good piece of evidence why the one and done rule is insufficient.
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Should be three like baseball. That's a rule that protects the college coaches.
I don't know why college coaches should be entitled to any more beneificial treatment in the system than anyone else.
Further, college coaches in baseball are notorious for burning through players with no regard for their pro futures. Everyone is looking out for themselves. The players are the ones who suffer with all these rules.
Any college bball coach worth his salt isn't getting fired over 2-3 players every few years leaving after 1 or 2 years of school. So basically, any system other than allowing the players to go pro whenever they want is detrimental to the kids, who are the one indispensible element of the whole system.
How is LSU not letting him be eligible?
LSU didn't create the criteria and they didn't lower his GPA, so I don't think this is their fault at all. If anything you should be saying Ben Simmons is not going to let Ben Simmons be eligible for the Wooden Award.
but not because of grades. its because i am older than most minerals.
IANAL, but I would guess the more complicated the NBA makes the criteria, the more likely the NBA loses in court. I mean, I would sue if I was seen by some draftniks as the #5 pick and seen by others as #6, and then I didn't get an exemption.
Besides part of the point of the current rule is that the NBA can delay the service time clock for a future star. Instead of paying $5 million for a good Ben Simmons somebody will be paying $5 million for a great Ben Simmons.
How bad must his grades be if an SEC school is having problems with him academically?
I'm sure there is more to this story, but if it is true that academics have been an issue, that means he failed to maintain a 2.0 at freaking LSU for a semester.
"GPA, GPA, GPA!"
UK fans criticizing a fellow SEC team's academic problems is akin to Rick Pitino degrading prostitution.
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why making a kid go to college for one year before turning pro is dumb............dumbest rule ever and makes a mockery of CBB. Let someone go pro right out of high school if that's what they choose to do.