Uh, no. He's saying that having some players occasionally become lottery picks after a couple years will make UConn an attractive destination for top-tier talent.
Read my reply to Acrboon. Sorry that you favor having a great player leave early so that we attract other great players who leave early. I prefer great players who decide to stay for 4 years. That doesn't mean I want mediocre players. Frankly, I this it's disingenuous for a fan to say we don't want to be UK and say at the same time we want to live off of players who leave early. The same guys who cry when we aren't in the discussion for stud UK recruits.
We won't be a title contending team, the Uconn we've been for the last quarter century if we are made up of all 4 year players, this is just silly.
That's what I'm not getting from @cohenzone's argument. It's been this way since Calhoun got here.
Everyone would love to have an NBA quality player for 4 years. It's just not realistic to think that a player with NBA size and skill will stay for 4 years, nor should they.
Hooper, thanks for that.
And of course you all misunderstand what I'm saying. Acrboon said basically that in order to compete relatively often for an NC you need to have recruits come in who will be capable of not only leaving early but being a high draft pick. And having that will get similar players in later years. Whether or not it's impossible to be competitive without such players can be argued. Obviously
College hoops has gone through many evolutions in just the last 50 years. For decades, great hs players who were not college material academically weren't recruited or they played JUCO first. College hoops still had great teams and great players. Today, there's no such thing as an elite hs player who isn't recruited by some high level D1 programs. Then, of course, until the late 70s or so frosh couldn't play varsity. Obviously you can have very good college hoops if one of two systems were in place. Either a kid can be drafted right out of hs and if not, stick the the four years or at least 3. The game would be every bit as interesting as it is today. And I would also at that a hs could who declared for the draft should be allowed to play college ball if undrafted. Without a true minor league system like baseball, I think that would be a fair rule.
It's not my dichotomy. It's the way the system is now for kids who the pros think are ready before senior year and who want to go pro. I'll also add that I think the people here who don't want us to be UK but want kids capable of leaving early because it will be an incentive to later recruits are kidding themselves. They would take almost any one of the UK 1 or 2 and done kids. I don't think for a second that a kid like a Rudy Gay, an Andre Drummond or even Jenba Walker leaving early is good for the team the next year. its good for those kids for sure.
I think at this point he's even confused himself and doesn't even know what his argument is. The college game has evolved dramatically in just the last 5 years, let alone the last twenty. Totally different world now, even Dook is embracing the one and dones.....who would have thunk??.
Sorry junior. I'll try to think more like you.
thats entirely true for the individual. It doesn't follow that it's great for the organization. A basketball team isn't the Business School. But to belabor my point because I have nothing better to do with my time tonight, the system is what it is. But that doesn't make it the best system for college sports. I happen not to buy into the proposition that glitz is all that matters in college sports. But as I said, I have seasons tickets anyway cuz I like a 360 jam by a 6' kid as much as the next guy.
