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Message: [QUOTE="73CAV, post: 3378743, member: 3916"] Essentially, I agree. I would like to address a few points made here, and by others. First, it will also make college coaches screen prospects more thoroughly. You can use N C State as an example. In the past two recruiting cycles, they have had an elite prospect successfully recruited, only to have him decide to play professionally. (Josh Hall just announced he's signing with an agent.) If you're a State fan, you have to view these developments as huge wastes of resources. Coaches need to know if a kid has any interest in going to school, or if basketball is their sole concern. If he is an elite recruit, and his sole interest is basketball, how much effort does a coach put into his recruitment. Furthermore, I think coaches will have to be very careful using the pitch, "I can make you NBA ready!" It may still be a viable approach for lesser talents, but if that is the selling point for a high profile recruit, I believe that there is a very high degree of risk involved. That said, I believe that schools like Kansas, Kentucky, Duke, and LSU will be the most at risk. They will have to decide whom they will recruit based not only on talent but intentions. There will still be 'one & dones'. Just because the scouting services don't give a prospect five stars doesn't mean he shares that opinion. And, as importantly, it doesn't mean that his friends and family share that opinion. Furthermore, some hidden gems will emerge during their first year of intercollegiate competition. They will go pro along with those who merely imagine that they are ready. Not much is going to change that. Finally, I suspect the G League will continue to evolve. It will change. Its marketing will change. If its elite players aren't getting the visibility the NBA believes they should be getting, the NBA will find a way to rectify that. The insatiable demands of media for more content have to be considered. As cable subscribers decline and new streaming services appear almost weekly, it seems that this won't be a huge problem. [/QUOTE]

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