[winflop]

The alternative for those players wasn’t staying at Kentucky three years, it was going straight to the NBA.  How good would a college team that signed Kobe Bryant or Lebron James had been, even if they only were there for one year?

All that being said, in thinking about this further, while one-and-dones do disadvantage Stanford, the bar we are talking about here is making the NCAA’s, and most teams who make the NCAA’s do so without a one-and-done, and the teams that make the NCAA’s with a one-and-done are big name teams that probably would have made the tournament anyways.

BC

My point about one-and-dones is that prior to that being an option, a player had to stay 3 years before they could enter the draft. So maybe those players would never go to college which I hadn't considered.

Suffice to say I preferred that system. One-and-done is just plain stupid - in any sport. But it's incumbent on the pro leagues to enforce this, not the NCAA. Nothing will ever prevent a kid from dropping out of school and going pro any time they want. But the leagues can set rules on who is eligible for their drafts.

[winflop]

The alternative for those players wasn’t staying at Kentucky three years, it was going straight to the NBA.  How good would a college team that signed Kobe Bryant or Lebron James had been, even if they only were there for one year?

All that being said, in thinking about this further, while one-and-dones do disadvantage Stanford, the bar we are talking about here is making the NCAA’s, and most teams who make the NCAA’s do so without a one-and-done, and the teams that make the NCAA’s with a one-and-done are big name teams that probably would have made the tournament anyways.

BC

My point about one-and-dones is that prior to that being an option, a player had to stay 3 years before they could enter the draft. So maybe those players would never go to college which I hadn't considered.

Suffice to say I preferred that system. One-and-done is just plain stupid - in any sport. But it's incumbent on the pro leagues to enforce this, not the NCAA. Nothing will ever prevent a kid from dropping out of school and going pro any time they want. But the leagues can set rules on who is eligible for their drafts.