10 Teams Banned from 2013 March Madness
10 Men's Basketball programs failed to meet the required APR score of 900 to partcipate in the postseason, with the headliner being UConn that had a lot of players leave school for various legal troubles.
It seems doubtful this will necessarily change anything moving forward since Kentucky Basketball somehow got a score of 963 even though their entire team change every year.
http://espn.go.com/mens-college-basketball/story/_/id/8077431/connectic…
http://www.ukathletics.com/blog/2012/06/uk-sports-all-clear-with-apr-co…
They need to change college bball to imitate college football. Either make it so they have to stay 3 years or make it so they can leave straight from HS again. What is the point for these 1 and done kids to even go to college for one year from an academic standpoint?
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No. $$$$$$$$ for the NBA. They one-year-in-college rule is entirely theirs, and it is entirely up to them to change it.
Back before the rule was implemented, players with no interest in college were going directly to the NBA. This was hurting the NBA, as the draft was losing interest thanks to most of the high draft picks being players a non-junky had never seen before, and then they took a few years to develop at the expense of the team. Enter the one-year rule, and suddenly the NBA is getting free player marketing and development at the expense of the NCAA. And it's not like the NBA cares if it makes a mockery of the NCAA "student" athlete, as long as it helps the bottom line.
College football doesn't have this problem because the NFL rule is three years, not one. I don't think most NBA players need as much physical development as NFL players though, so I don't know if the NBA is going to be in a hurry to change it. But it's entirely out ot the NCAA's hands.
It's not even a requirement to go to college. You just have to be one year removed from HS graduation. The players do not have to spend that year in college, but almost all have done so.
Why do people think these are NCAA rules?
I was implying that the NCAA and NBA colluded on this rule. I know it is an NBA rule. The NCAA could never mandate this.
From my understanding APR is suppose to encourage academics and the "student" part of student-athlete. This seems incongruent with having a team that rarely graduates its starters.
Right, but if your team remains eligible despite intentionally targeting recruits that have no intention of ever getting a degree, then the APR is kind of a stupid metric, is it not?
So you're suggesting no schools should recruit the best highschool players in the country because they will likely go to the NBA before graduation?
That doesn't make sense. You can't penalize a school for getting good recruits. Aslong as the recruits are academically eligible/leave the school in good standing that should be enough. Why should KU be penalized for being able to recruit top notch talent?
I think the concern with these "one-and-done" kids and the APR stems from the very real possibility that if you only expect the kid to stay for 1 year, you can put them in easier classes and/or play around with their transripts (through various means) to make sure they remain eligible despite violating the true meaning and point of the APR system. I'm not accusing Kentucky of anything, and college sports in general are certainly not paragons of virtue, but it doesn't take a much cynicism to wonder how a team like Kentucky can recruit some of the best kids in the country every year, have them go pro, and maintain an APR that is only 8 points lower than Vanderbilts and higher than Georgetown, VCU, and OSU, amongst others.
my only problem with UK is their coach and how sleezy he is.
He's had Final Fours vacated at every school he's coached at. I think you could comfortably call him a sleazebag without meeting him.
That's all well and good that you've met him in real life, that doesn't mean he isn't sleazy. Lots of sleezeballs - coaches, politicians, loan officers - seem like great people in real life. That's what allows them to be a sleezeball.
See Sandusky, Jerry.
Edit: I'm not in any way, shape, or form comparing skirting rather arbitrary NCAA rules with what Sandusky did. I'm just agreeing with WolvinLA2's point that "Lots of sleezeballs ....seem like great people in real life."
Go ask Minutemen and Memphis Tigers fans about how upstanding and trustworthy coach Cal is. His daughter may be great, but it doesn't take away from the fact that, as a basketball coach, he embodies many of the deepest flaws of the sport.
And stop with the whole "he's like every other coach, just more successful" crap. He's won ONE championship. I don't particularly like Coach K, but he's won 4 championships, and his teams seem largely clean. Izzo has a title and at least as successful a run as Calipari, and people would say he's run a good, clean ship at MSU. Heck, I don't really like Roy Williams and think he is pretty sleazy, and he's got two titles to his name. So yeah, Calipari has recruited well and finally won a title last year, but he has certainly not been a runaway success given the trail of major infractions that have followed him, and on the court his teams are usually good but certainly not juggernauts (excluding last year's team to an extent).
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Jon Falk is Michigan's equipment manager! Now if I see you ask one more time, I'm going to sic the mods on you.
But "Who is Jon Falk?" in his comment is just in his signature line, that's why it always shows up. He isn't asking that every time.
Falk Gultch is the best place for a relaxing vacation!
I'm too lazy to find this out myself, but I would bet half of those programs have had a coaching change in the last three years.
I love it - the NCAA is actually putting some teeth into this.
They should probably tighten the rules to penalize programs that load up on one-and-dones, though. Even if these guys are leaving in good academic standing, they're leaving nowhere near a degree. Maybe a school should be penalized, say, .75 points for a guy who leaves after one year, .50 for one who leaves after two years and .25 for leaving after three.