11-12-2020, 01:03 PM
(11-12-2020, 12:28 PM)oregontim Wrote: Is it just me, or is college basketball stardom mostly about lasting a couple of years before leaving? The all-stars seem to be the ones who weren't quite good enough to leave for the NBA after one or two seasons, and are still playing. And of course the superstar freshmen. For how many years now has Kentucky fielded really good teams of almost all true freshmen, all of whom leave after one year?
I'm not complaining about it; things have to change, and these athletes ought not to be indentured the way they used to be. I'm just saying it's sure changed MBB.
This is 100% the case. Look at the Pac-12 1st team last year. It was entirely whale 1-and-dones and juniors/seniors like Oscar and Oregon's Payton Pritchard.
Plus, given the sheer number of teams out there, it's super easy to transfer "down" or "laterally" (especially from an upper-level program), freeing a spot for others...and now more and more we're seeing lower-division superstars transferring "up." Transfers are an epidemic in this sport.