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[QUOTE="pfister1, post: 258533, member: 285"]
I really think if you want to change the college game, then the impetus for change needs to be on the college system, not on limiting or restricting the options of the players playing in that system.      King Otto proposed in a different thread that scholarships be treated as four year commitments.    A team gets 13 scholarships and once awarded, it cannot be awarded again for four years, whether the player it was originally awarded to is using it in a particular year or not.       
 
  I don't know that it would work, but I think the idea heads in the right direction.   It places the onus on the schools to get to the result they are trying to achieve by shaping their rosters in a manner that reflects their goal.     Not trying to get to the result by telling the kids they can't chase their dream.     Under that type of system colleges presumably wouldn't give their scholarships to one and done players, because the risk of having a one done and a diminished roster after he leaves would exceed the benefit from the one year you had him.     Best example might be a guy like Donte Greene.    Did we get enough from having him for one year that it would be worth it to not be able to award his scholarship for the next three years after he left.   Obviously you can't always predict who will leave early.....JB probably would not have predicted Donte would only be a one year player or that Jonny would only be here two, so the idea might need some refinement.
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