The external panel, headed by former Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice, has released its recommendations to the NCAA to reform college basketball. The AP wrote a story on it (and provides the full report) here:
https://collegebasketball.ap.org/article/apnewsbreak-hoops-panel-says-ba...
The main takeaways are to remove "one-and-dones," rein in the AAU circuit, impose harsher penalties for cheaters, and allow undrafted players to return to school.
The NCAA has indicated it wants reforms in place by August.
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Thanks for the link, but at this point, to express my feelings on this in one word-Yawn...
UNCheat will remain unpunished, the corrupt parties will find new ways to gain financially or maintain a recruiting/competitive advantage, and I'll try to look past all that BS and focus on enjoying Buzzketball.
Oh, and never forget-LOLUVA lost to #16UMBC!
Isn't allowing undrafted players to return to school going to play hell with scholarship numbers and recruiting?
yes, its going to screw things up big time. I have a feeling power 5 schools/coaches will have to tell the kids if they declare and stay in the draft, their spot may not be available for them if they don't get drafted. I think it will in turn reduce the number of underclassmen declaring and staying in the draft though.
Either that, or the transfer market is going to be like free agency.
Bury the lede much? This is going to have a massive impact to the college game, for the better. I hope college football follows suit (possibly with a 'Reserve' so to speak... that is, Drafted in first 2 days, or back to college).
I like the, undrafted can come back but not low rounds can come back. I feel like that makes it too much of a cluster.
I don't think so. Just have the player make a decision before the draft that if he's not taken in the first _ rounds, that his name is removed from the draft boards and he is returning to college. That way, you can have more of your players testing those waters and going through the draft prep and if they fall for whatever reason on draft night (like Jerrod Evans and Shyrone Stith did) they aren't screwed if a team decides to take a flier on them in the 6th or 7th round to prevent them from going back.
104 players declared early for the NFL Draft in 2017. 28 of them went undrafted, and I'm guessing more than a few ended up getting drafted much later than their draft report said they would. Stith was told by Mel Kiper on the phone he was a midrange 1st round player and the 12th overall prospect before he made his decision to declare. He ended up drafted 243rd overall. I would like to see players in his situation be allowed to go back and continue their careers in college
I love this and imagine the drama it could add to the draft towards the end of the 4th round in terms of teams trading up to get players that otherwise wouldn't be available after the 4th.
All down for the return if undrafted thats a big miss I've always thought had a big impact on players who took bad advice. Needs to be implemented in football as well some slight ways to reduce scholarship issues would be move the draft way up or adjust deadlines in recruiting so it wouldnt cause mayhem to scholarship numbers. Im no big guru on drafts but always feel they could move the drafts up the nfl one in particular could be earlier I feel a few weeks after the super bowl maybe leave enough time for pro days etc but not have this big gap where players would be left out for a big chunk of time.
I actually think that without 1-and-done, some of the big programs may start to falter a little with recruiting. Players may feel like they'll need to stay 3-4 years at a place, so hopefully they choose based on how they like the school as a whole and not just the program. Again that's a wishful thought.
Have people forgotten that "one and done" isn't an NCAA rule, it's an NBA rule therefore the NBAPA and the owners have to change their rules to get rid of one and done. Just as the NFL has a three-years removed from high school rule and MLB says you have to stay in college three years (or until you turn 21, whichever happens first) if you enroll in a four-year college.
Honestly, there's not much the NCAA can do here concerning one-and-done because I somehow doubt the NCAA has the power to tell someone they have to stay in school X number of years.
They could make the scholarship contingent on staying a certain number of years with penalty clauses if its vacated early. That would be about the extent that I could see them being able to do from a contracts perspective.
Don't agree with this. Gets too close to employment contracts.
Scholarships are already similar to employment contracts
No. They're not.