Hate to say it... but time for 2-tiered division 1...

[Winter Tim]

... one for college students who want to play basketball during their 4 years....
... and another division for basketball players... who need to hang out in college for a year to reach the NBA's 19-year-old requirement.
WVU would have been guilty of this a couple of times (Ebanks, Alexander) of being the other division
Still, I would rather watch competitive games... and I think the 2 division set-up would do that.

 

[WVU_98]

What a dumb idea...just let high school graduates go straight to the D-league.
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[Doctor Doom]

Good lord

Nope

 

[Op2]

Here's my idea

Once you give a guy a scholarship you can't use that scholarship again for four years, unless perhaps the guy transfers or can't play due to injury. If a guy goes pro after one or two years then fine, but you just have to leave that scholarship vacant for the next two or three years.

 

[LowFatMilk]

What's really needed is a WVU fan base that simply says.... ....we got beat by the better team.

No BS excuses.

 

[Winter Tim]

I am not making excuses. We did get beat a better team. A much better team.
But my point is the reason UK is 36-0 is a structural problem... a systematic problem... not a "they had the better team tonight" trope we normally bring out.

Also, I like the idea of allowing high school players to go straight to NBA (or D-League)... and I like the idea of - once you give a scholarship, you can't use that one again for 4 years.

 

[Doctor Doom]

Re: Here's my idea

So don't give free educations?
I doubt that would ever happen.

 

[AWS1022]

Re: Here's my idea

I agree completely with the four year scholarship...it would solve a lot.

 

[Winter Tim]

There is the question of.... why do schools give scholarships - because you can play ball. Maybe combine them. If you are a music major... I am guessing you can get a band scholarship, can't you?
However, if we said "no scholarships", then sugar-daddy alums would probably just hand the best ball players coming out of high school the money for tuition... so they could come play for his school.
I don't know what the answer is.

I am actually all for student-athletes. But it is a strange system we have where we compel people to go to college... who have no interest in going to college.

I would like to see system like baseball and NHL. Coming out of high school, you can 1) sign a pro contract, go to minor leagues... make a little money... see if you can cut it... and avoid college if it doesn't interest you. Or, 2) you can accept a college scholarship to play sports, but you remain amateur - and won't get paid.

The NBA needs a minor league. Right now, the use colleges as their minor league. Thus, you have teams of NBA minor leaguers (Kentucky) playing the Woffords of the world... whose players go to school 4 years... then come out and get a job using their degree.

 

[WarezEER]

Winter Tim.............you are wise beyond your y'EERS. Go to the head of the class. The basketball world (the one's with a brain) knows your right!

 

[Darth_VadEER]

What a bitch. Sniff, sniff...we need our own league...sniff sniff.

 

[Darth_VadEER]

I think it's time for someone to get some tampons for their heavy flow.

 

[GetYaNumbersUp]

Originally posted by Winter Tim:
... one for college students who want to play basketball during their 4 years....
... and another division for basketball players... who need to hang out in college for a year to reach the NBA's 19-year-old requirement.
WVU would have been guilty of this a couple of times (Ebanks, Alexander) of being the other division
Still, I would rather watch competitive games... and I think the 2 division set-up would do that.

Don't be such a butthurt bitch. The game last night was a demolition, own it, accept it, and move on.

 

[Winter Tim]

>>> The game last night was a demolition, own it, accept it, and move on.

 

[mwhals]

Re: Here's my idea

Originally posted by Op2:
Once you give a guy a scholarship you can't use that scholarship again for four years, unless perhaps the guy transfers or can't play due to injury. If a guy goes pro after one or two years then fine, but you just have to leave that scholarship vacant for the next two or three years.

LOL! If that rule were in place, WVU would not have a team based on all the departures we have experienced.

 

[USMCatFan]

Not to start an argument, but the OAD player isn't the problem that the sports writers would lead you to believe. Last year out of 351 DIV1 programs a grand total of NINE college freshmen got drafted into the NBA. Less than one percent of all scholarship freshmen.

Granted many more than that came to school believing that they would be "NBA locks" after only one year's preparation. Some of those squandered their eligibility by entering the draft too soon and wound up playing overseas. The majority stay in school longer than the fabled one year.