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Message: [QUOTE="freescooter, post: 3922853, member: 1023"] Yup. I don’t care if there is an agreement between the NBA, GLeague and/or the NCAA. I don’t much care if the kid leaves. That’s his choice. But I want to end the charade that these guys who leave for the NBA after a year or 2 are at the schools for any purpose but to play basketball. So just make a rule. Once you award a scholarship it is ” committed” for 4 years unless the player graduates in 3. If he leaves to sign a pro contract, good for him, but it sucks being the coach who now has to get by with one less Scholarship player. If you are John Calipari, you are screwed. Plain and simple. If you are Dan Hurley, it isn’t that bad. It puts pressure on the coaches to recruit players who are committed to playing college basketball and taking advantage of all the things Bluedog mentioned. And it encourages guys who really have no interest in those things and just need a place to hang until the draft to go to the G or for that matter to sue the NBA over its restrictive rule. My guess is that after a year or so it will all shake out. Oh there will be the story of Johnny Jumpshot who didnt get a scholarship to Whatsamatter U so he had to go to the G League, got injured and is working at a car wash, and everybody will say it’s sad. And it will be but lots of guys don’t get basketball scholarships. [/QUOTE]