SHOCKING! Bobby Knight rails against NBA's "one year in school" rule

http://sports.espn.go.com/ncb/news/story?id=2771573

I do happen to agree with him, but it's obviously no surprise he feels this way. Has it raised the quality of play and player in college? I think so. But does it further diminish the NCAA and schools' abiliy to even try to present themselves as caring about academics?

Absolsmurfly.

 

Not buying it. Kids left after one year before and after the rule. Schools have used kids for their own benefit for years. Knight has integrity on this issue, but he's pissing into the wind if he thinks this the NBA rule makes this all new.

 

I'm confused. If a guy's jumping to the NBA as, say a junior, and knows it, is there anything to keep him from ditching class? Is there anything to keep an outgoing senior from doing it? Is Knight arguing that guys like Durant go to college with the idea that they won't go to class?

 

Since the whole point of the rule is to force these mouthy young negroes to wait before they get their hands on the big money, why doesn't the NBA simply require a player must have reached his 21st birthday before becoming eligible to play??

No more arbitrary and illogical than saying "one year out of high school." No less defensible in court, either.

 

You could substitute "four years out of HS" if you wanted a non-age-dependent cutoff point.

Why not? If we're going to force these young punks to go to school, why not force them to go for four years, just like in the good ole days?

 

Because, IIRC, Spencer Haywood beat that rule to a pulp in court.

 

Just from a moral point of view, society should encourage these mouthy young negroes to forgo real effort in any academic setting, high school, faux prep schools and the silly 1 semester in college. (Really, they only need to be elgibile for the fall semester, the season is over b efire spring grades)

Once a young negro is identified as having some game by the 7th or 8th grade, he should be removed from the home, 'hood or ghetto and placed in the appropriate Sonny Vaccarro-like developmental camp, such as Nike, Adidas, Conversese...

Lets not waste time trying to educate the future basketball players of America. If only 1 out of thousand get a check, the average income among all thousand will still be greater than if they all went to college.

 

Wow. Talk about ugly.

 

You mean that's not what starman meant? The world is conspiring to keep black high school kids from becoming multimillionares, all I'm suggesting is that we allow it, in spades.

 

In spades? Hmm...sorry if I'm still dubious, especially with you typing in blue font.

And what you wrote was still pretty ugly.

 

No dark sarcasm in the classroom.

(Sorry.)

 

Remember -- it's not the NCAA's rule.