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Message: [QUOTE="nelsonmuntz, post: 3936508, member: 833"] You keep asserting the dilution of talent as if it is an accepted fact. It is not. Players started going pro early a long time ago. If you were right, Lebron James would have been playing for Ohio State in 2004. I will check, but I don't think he was. If anything, the college talent is a little less diluted because fewer Americans are making the NBA than they were 20 years ago. I have not done the research yet, but I also think that in 2021 there are fewer players just lighting their college careers on fire by declaring when they have no chance of making the league, whereas there were dozens that would do that every year in the 90's and into the 2000's. Players get more support from coaches and can do a no-fault declare now, which they couldn't back then. There are probably an extra 30-40 high quality players that stay in college longer now who would have left early in the system that existed 20 years ago. [/QUOTE]