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Message: [QUOTE="Lefty2one, post: 2106985, member: 1001"] [LIST] [*]Excessive early entry was already hurting the quality of college hoops. [*]The 1-and-done circus that started in 2007 has backfired (not that the NCAA can do anything about it). The stock-piling of top recruits at UK doesn't help, plus some other blue blood programs are hurt by the continuity issues of this era. [*]Conference realignment was the last foot up the rear-end. It killed a lot of great basketball rivalries and ruined the best basketball league in the country. [/LIST] The talent level across the board is much lower than it used to be since so many guys are leaving early. Guys who are either end-of-the-bench NBA players or D-League/Euro guys leave college at too high of a clip. Who's been the last non-UK powerhouse team? UNC in 2009? That's nearly a decade ago. The days are gone of loaded, experienced powerhouses. Look at the lack of NBA impact players and starters (or hell, NBA players period) on recent champs... 2016 Villanova 2014 UConn 2013 Louisville 2010 Duke You won't find a stretch like that in the 90s or 00s. There isn't a solid NBA starter in that group outside of Gorgui Dieng. Our 2004 roster alone was more impressive than those four collectively in terms of talent. A decade ago you had a UCLA team featuring Russell Westbrook, Kevin Love, Darren Collison and Luc Richard Mbah A Moute that didn't even reach the championship game. I still maintain that our 2011 and 2014 teams would get pasted by our 90s teams that came up short (94, 95, 96, 98). Today's game has become a battle of experienced mid-majors vs young talent. In the current era, Kentucky is the most polarizing thing in the sport and they offer inexperienced, sloppy play and shoddy basketball IQs. I used to watch multiple non-UConn games every week. The last few years I watch maybe 5-10 games the entire season just to get a look at the top NBA prospects. I can't stomach it compared to the NBA and I used to barely watch non-Knick regular season NBA games because, let's face it, they're meaningless and the NBA doesn't really start until mid-April. At the same time, there is also a lot of nostalgia, OP mentioned 94-09...there was a A LOT of ugly UConn basketball in that stretch. [/QUOTE]

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