OTish - 5* MBB recruit not going U of Az but going pro overseas - good for all?
So a big-time recruit selects Arizona, but now says he's not going to collge, he wants to go pro somewhere (this says Australia is likely) before heading into NBA draft.
http://espn.go.com/mens-college-basketball/story/_/id/16643333/terrance…
I think this is GREAT and wish ALL of the one-and-doners do this. Let college be for guys who want to "play school," and stay 3-4 years. The NBA's 1-year rule is a joke, and is ONLY meant to save the NBA from themselves (read: bad draft picks like Kwame Brown). Plenty of other sports have kids to who pro at 18 or younger -- tennis, soccer, hockey, baseball, etc. Why should basketball be different? Because the NBA has been burned by its poor scouts and management and the inability to really determine good quality in a high school player, that's why.
Fine. If kids can't go straight to NBA, let them go earn a paycheck somewhere else legitmiately, instead of being paid under the table by bagmen and AAU guys.
I would love the day that Calipari has no 5-stars to recruit because they are all playing in Turkey or Spain or Italy or China. That will make college ball a LOT better.
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the amount of class time a football player misses compared to a basketball is minimal. In basketball, any weekday away game means you are probably missing classes that day. Throw in conference tourneys, post season and pre-season tourneys and a basketball player misses a lot of classes during the course of a season.
in FBS is hilarious when other sports miss more time than football.