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Message: [QUOTE="Flacusian, post: 1016476, member: 264"] The sad part of so many kids bolting early for the NBA is that so few of them actually carve out a significant career in the league. For every success story there are dozens of Jonny Flynns and Fab Melos. Even more sad is the realization that the days when we saw kids commit to our University and had the opportunity to watch them develop for up to 4 years and lend some consistency to the program is gone forever. Anyone who is worth getting really excited about will likely be gone in one year. And meanwhile, most of the teams in the NBA suck and that's with a constant infusion of these kids who are a long way from being mature physically, emotionally, athletically, socially, and intellectually. I'm grateful that I was around to see the birth, growth and development of the early Big East. Now that was college basketball. You got so see kids commit and hang around and you could look forward to how they would be part of the team for longer than 6 months of one year. The games were more exciting. The level of play was lightyears ahead of what we watch now. There was this thing that you would see in every game that you rarely see now. It's called SCORING. The pace and tempo was faster and the competition was better. The product we see now is vastly inferior to what we once were treated to. We may not have been able to see every game which was played, but when Cuse was on TV it was an EVENT! From time to time we can see flashes of what it used to be like but on the whole the college game is not as good as it used to be. And the lure of the NBA and early departures has largely been responsible for ruining the college game. It's sad, it really is. [/QUOTE]

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