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[QUOTE="cuse522, post: 2345384, member: 1149"]
Was wondering when someone would bring that up, as I read through the whole thread today. This would be a great change for college basketball... But, of course, it'll never happen.

In an imaginary world where it could, I think the way to do it would be to:

1. Institute some sort of luxury tax on rookie contracts to keep all of the teams on even footing. If the Lakers want to give a kid a huge deal, they pay a surplus that is divided among the bottom five to 10 revenue teams to be used in their rookie pool the next X years. Also you could cap rookie spending over a five year stretch or something... So the Lakers could go after only one prospect every few years. This would still be enough to be a HUGE advantage, but only if they scouted well and make good decisions. It would also be a source of great intrigue for the sports media.

A better fix to the tanking problem would be something like, you can't pick in the top five in the draft more than twice in three years or three times in five years... Something like that. If you tank that bad for that long, you get to pick sixth after you've used up your top picks. It also increases the risk of getting unlucky and drawing the fifth spot a few times, which likely means not getting a superstar at all for your tanking. Perhaps give the 9th place finisher in each conference a shot in the lottery from like 3rd through 5th, too, and make those exempt from the rule.

That would also make it interesting in years the top of the draft was not as good, with the teams at the bottom furiously trying not to use up one of their top-5 spots that year.
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