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Message: [QUOTE="HakAttack, post: 258262, member: 1010"] Trust bees to understand the point of what I was trying to make. We all know that these kids are not "amateurs." But what "Coach Cal" is doing is making a mockery of the game. ESPN won't say anything because it's a cash cow for them, the NCAA's the same way. Why even make these kids go to class? They won't be around for the next year anyway. Hard to have them negatively impact the program long-term when they're barely there. In this current "agreement," everyone wins, but the game of college basketball gets *cked over. Let's take a look, shall we. The kids get to showcase their talent at a top level program for one year before they sign guaranteed $ as lottery picks = they win. Calipari gets to Final Fours and eventually wins a national championship = he wins. Kentucky is a basketball powerhouse again, enrollment goes up, school's in the national spotlight = they win. NCAA gets one of their "blue blood" programs to dominate the rest of college basketball with an utterly dominant "team" (despite the fact they're all one and done kids), which means exposure and $$$ = they win. NBA gets the hype train rolling once the final four's over and get future stars that have dominated in college = they win. The rest of college basketball is left trying to figure out how to slow down this runaway freight train (the way Calimari and Kentucky conduct business) that can't be stopped. This is bad for college basketball as a whole and again, makes a mockery of the sport. There's a reason why people resented Bosh and LeBron when they p*ssied out and went to Miami to join Wade. Everyone's trying to take shortcuts these days, that's the way of the world. It doesn't make it right. It makes it cheap, skeezy and ultimately is unsustainable. This is not college basketball anymore. This is "farm team pimping" at it's nauseating finest. If you want to enjoy it, go ahead. But for anyone to suggest that Boeheim's similar to "Pimp Cal" because we had Carmelo Anthony, perhaps the best college Freshman of the last 30 years, a once in a generation talent, you're an idiot and I don't honestly care to converse with you because it's obvious that you're clueless about the game of basketball. [/QUOTE]

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