I don't get the 1year thing.. seems a bit random will 1 year in college make that big of a difference for the NBA???
Huggins and the package deal
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2006/basketball/ncaa/03/22/bc.bkc.huggins.players.ap/index.htmlCOLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) -- Bob Huggins is a coach without a college team, but he could end up with two of Ohio's top basketball players no matter where he lands.
O.J. Mayo, Ohio's two-time Associated Press Mr. Basketball, said Tuesday that he and Cincinnati North College Hill teammate Bill Walker -- both juniors -- may go wherever the former University of Cincinnati coach goes.
"That could be right," Mayo said of the rumor that he and Walker would go with Huggins as a package deal. "That could be a possibility. At the same time, we don't want to go to a raw program."
The both of these guys will most likely be one and done, so if the school wants to have one decent year (media attention and television games = money for the school) I guess it makes sense. With the new age limit in the league this will become a common thing for the top highschool players in highschool. Is this what the NBA and College basketball wanted? It seems to me going to college will become nothing more than a formality for many players from this point on.
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This is why Reggie Theus needs to go to UNLV. He could totally return to the days of the Runnin Rebs. Get Lon Kruger out of there.
I thought Huggins had already signed on at KSU?
He did. Expect Jason Bennett, OJ Mayo, Billy Walker and Herb Pope to commit to the Wildcats too before the summer is over.TheATLien said:I thought Huggins had already signed on at KSU?
HKF said:He did. Expect Jason Bennett, OJ Mayo, Billy Walker and Herb Pope to commit to the Wildcats too before the summer is over.
All of them are top-50 players atleast, Bennett and Pope could stay all four years.
Guys like Randolph Morris will be exposed at the college level and forced to stay until they feel their stock is high enough to get drafted. Morris would have been drafted after his senior year of high school two years ago, but after a dismal freshman season at Kentucky, his stock dropped and he fell off the radar.ralaw said:With the new age limit in the league this will become a common thing for the top highschool players in highschool. Is this what the NBA and College basketball wanted? It seems to me going to college will become nothing more than a formality for many players from this point on.
But of course there will be stars leaving early as there are now.
It's going to backfire on the NBA, a bigger problem than the jump from HS to Pro was the mass exodus of players who shouldn't have declared early from college who went pro. Guys who had no shot at the league, and that's not going to change.. actually, I think it'll increase now that they won't have to go up against the HS players who were almost guaranteed to take up slots in the first round.jworth said:Guys like Randolph Morris will be exposed at the college level and forced to stay until they feel their stock is high enough to get drafted. Morris would have been drafted after his senior year of high school two years ago, but after a dismal freshman season at Kentucky, his stock dropped and he fell off the radar.
But of course there will be stars leaving early as there are now.
I've never been against players going to get the money, it just hurts me when so many take the illadvised leap and end up crashing and not making the league. Sure, a lot of them probably wouldn't have made the league after four years and they probably weren't in school for the education anyway.. but the fact that they're just left hanging feels wrong.
i don't even think it's gonna take that longHKF said:He did. Expect Jason Bennett, OJ Mayo, Billy Walker and Herb Pope to commit to the Wildcats too before the summer is over.
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