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03-17-2010, 11:43 PM | #2 |
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sigh, I guess lets throw athletics out the window! Heres to an even more obese America!
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03-17-2010, 11:48 PM | #3 |
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Conspiracy theory, could this be a ploy from the NBA to have these kids to stay in school and become more fundamentally sound which lead to more competitive games.
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It needs to be like NCAA baseball. You are in college for 1 year? Nope, if you go, it's three year minimum. You can go to majors right out of high school, but if you go to college, you must go for 3.
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Definitely interesting. I had no idea our graduation (MU) was so low. That's certainly pathetic. What caused that?
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A lot of this has to do with our integration of development leagues and college. In most other countries, they separate them. For instance, in England if you want to become a professional soccer player, you join a professional academy at a relatively young age and dedicate your life to that. It's a hard choice. As Education secretary, you obviously want to deal with kids graduating. But for professional leagues, the distinction becomes less clear. How many current NBA starting players spent four years in college? You have students going to college that have no desire to ever finish. |
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The NBA rule of 1 year has likely been a large part of this. However, if the NCAA want's to go down this path that is suggested, college BB will become even worse than it is already.
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In the case of NBA players, there's no real virtue in having them spend four years in college. Those types of players aren't even getting a real education unless they want to. There's little reason to expect them to give up the financial security of getting to the NBA sooner in return for what is (for them) a relatively meaningless education. And money is really at the heart of this matter for the schools, players, and the NBA.
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Now that I've read a bit more, the stats seem suspect. A lot of the numbers come from kids that were kicked off, transfered, or went home and quit.
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It's pretty much skewed numbers from the Quin Snyder devasty. Anderson has cleaned this program up rather nicely. He didn't help our numbers by kicking 2 people off the team for off the court issues. Most teams around here would just deal with the problems "in house" and maybe suspend them for the preseason games. It's the price you pay for wanting a clean program.
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But no, I do take graduation rates seriously. And this annoys me, even with the Snyder to Anderson transition. When you take pride on your graduation rates, they shouldn't be qualified. Snyder and Anderson should be looked at independent of each other of course, but I'd be interested in what the NCAA has to offer here. We're a college, not a farm team. Should players wish to go to the NBA after high school, they should certainly do so. Otherwise I'd like to enjoy them for four years of good basketball and study. |
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