2012-13 College Basketball Running Cordial Discussion

No surprise, but Noel has a torn ACL.

That's a dagger. Then again, he needs an extra year in college anyway.

 

Kentucky fans are freaking out. Their NCAA chances were, IMHO, bleak at best before Noel's injury. Now, who knows what will happen to the Cayuts.

 

They'll be one and done.

 

Willie Cauley-Stein is really, really good.

 

Or kick the ever-loving shit out of Iowa in the first round of the NIT.

 

Besides, the GMs and owners must be protected from themselves.

They are - and have been - so afraid to let the next 18-year-old wunderkind slip through their fingers that instead of being a little more selective, they think hedging their bets means taking all of them. Never mind that the vast majority are neither mature nor good enough.

Then the NCAA becomes eager to babysit for a year. Then a guy like Nerlens Noel tears up his knee. No surprise Pat Forde said what he did ... someone had to.

 

Please back this up with facts. In the 2005 draft, the last in which high schoolers were allowed to enter, most of the best value picks were high schoolers.

The 2001 draft, plus a small handful of other examples littered mostly around that same time frame, is the only real example of reaching for high schoolers. That draft scared everyone off.

 

But how bad can you fuck up a two-round draft? It's not like they're drafting 50 guys and sending them to the New York-Penn League.

 

For every kid who gets hurt, how many are fine?

So dumb to whine about this rule just because someone got hurt. It's always a dumb rule, regardless.

 

Exactly. It's also not a nuanced or original stance. Many people are taking up this cause today, mostly because they're short on the ability to actually analyze how Nerlens Noel will fare in the draft process.

Also, Kentucky fans, he's not coming back next year.

 

You just provided the proof. And 2001 wasn't it. How many high schoolers were taken in the first round who washed out?

Granted, there are busts who were four-year college standouts. But the feeding frenzy for the high-school kids was getting out of hand. If it weren't, why did David Stern change the draft rules for eligibility. He wouldn't have if more were successful straight out of high school?

 

What are you even talking about? You're out of your element and making shit up. High schoolers had the highest success rate by far of any group of draft picks from 1995-2005.