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Message: [QUOTE="cuseincincy, post: 1324639, member: 331"] If they want to follow the baseball model I'd have no problem with it. Sure it'd make it tougher on college basketball coaches but so what? Let them feel some of the pain that college baseball coaches go through not knowing if a kid they got a commitment from is going to get drafted and if they do get drafted then you have to re-recruit them to stay. Let the players assume some risk in their decision to go pro or to go to college (in the business world we call that "skin in the game"). We're only talking 60 players a year getting drafted. During the most recent 11 year period (1995-2005) that high schoolers could get drafted only 39 were drafted. I have no idea how many declared but weren't drafted but it can't be many. But once they decide on college by a certain date, they have to stay for 3 years. This would likely result in more declaring as I'm sure there are many who thought they'd go for a year or twon and then declare. But the schools have to get something out of it too. And the NCAA has to use their head (wishful thinking) and allow kids to decide to go to college even if they've been drafted. The current rule is idiotic in that if they declare they can't go back to school even if they don't get drafted. What moron decided that was good for anyone? Buyer beware for the NBA. For every Lebron or KG there are 5-10 Kwame Brown's or Sebastian Telfair's. I believe in baseball they have right up to the first day of classes to decide if they are going pro or not. What I like most about this is the person who would hate this the most is PayCal. Can you imagine if on the first day of classes Towns, Lyles, Booker and Ulis all decided to sign their pro deals instead of going to UK? Of course they'd still be the best team in the country as he'd have the Harrisions, Lee and Dakari locked up for 2 more years in addition to Poythress and Cauley-Stein for this year. [/QUOTE]

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