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Message: [QUOTE="Paesano, post: 2538903, member: 5631"] The NBA needs to get rid of the one and done rule. If you don't want a kid to play straight out of high school, let the team draft him and send him to their D league team (or whatever letter is correct). Also, every player should count against a team's scholarship count until he either graduates, enrolls at another university or college or he reaches his nominal graduation date. If a player jumps after his junior year, you have to wait a year to fill that slot. If he jumps after his soph year, you have to wait 2 years. If he jumps after his freshman year, you have to wait three years. Call me an idealist but maybe college athletics shouldn't be a mockery anymore. Maybe these kids should either be STUDENT athletes or they should be allowed to jump straight to the "minor leagues" or "major leagues", if they are good enough. Some might argue that the total number of student athletes would drop too much and that would be bad for underprivileged kids looking to sports for a way out of their situation. Fine. Bump the scholarship limit up to 14 then. But, honestly, there aren't THAT many kids that jump early so the impact of a rule like this would be minor. It only would hurt a team loaded with one and done players. Boo hoo. The response would be to take fewer of those players or spread them out over time. That would, in turn, spread them out over more teams. And the 4 star kids would then get distributed to more teams as well. Teams that take 5 star kids will have to learn to play with a thinner roster and roll the dice on what happens if one or more of those kids gets injured. It shouldn't be a no-brainer for Duke and Kentucky to load up on these kids. [/QUOTE]

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