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[QUOTE="DeGrozz, post: 1030279, member: 205"]
Requiring players to stay for three years seems a little much.  I don't see any reason why the next Kobe Bryant, Lebron James or Dwight Howard should have to spend a year in college.

What I would like to see is pretty simple:

1 - Institute a rule that allows players to either (a) enter the draft immediately after high school or (b) go the NCAA/Euro route for [U]at least[/U] 2 years
2 - For any player not out of high school for at least three years trying to enter the draft (players right out of HS, or players trying to enter after their 2nd year of college) be evaluated by an independent panel of scouts to get an honest assessment of where they could fall in the draft.  This would prevent someone like a Vander Blue from being taken advantage of by an agent by being told "you're early 2nd round" and then going undrafted.

As to point 2 - I think it sounds a little more complex than it is.  You're going to have 40 or 50 underclassmen declare early.  about half of them will be pretty obviously ready (like MCW, Zeller, Porter, etc last year).  That only leave 20 or 25 players left to evaluate.

I think making the rule three years will hurt college hoops in the long run.  Players will start smarting up and realize that making a USD equivalent of a couple hundred thousand bucks a year and up in Madrid, Barcelona, Milan, or Beijing will help out their personal situation a lot more than taking a team to the final four three years in a row.
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