Oversigning at Indiana

[dmackindm]

My move if I was the NCAA would be to make freshmen ineligible until the one-and-done rule got scrapped. Really I would just want the NBA to make a two year rule. Then I would set up degree programs where students could earn an associates degree after two years in a specialized program for college athletes that would focus on the things they would really need with respect to being professional athletes at any level.

For instance, one class would be about choosing appropriate representation. One class would be on contracts. One class would be about media relations and PR. One class would be about leadership. One class would be about teamwork and organizational culture. One class would be about international relations. One class would be about personal finance. One class would be about investing. One class would be about transition from professional sports into other careers. One class would be about broadcasting, etc.

This would make too much sense.
I can see it now - Keeping your posse down on the farm while you make $$$$.

 

[hawkdrummer1]

gotta have something to talk about this time of year. but yes, very interesting how they overlook football oversigning at ESPN.

Shall I state the obvious? S-E-C

 

[MisterLucky]

Something I have never understood is how all these one and done kids don't affect the graduation rate at Kentucky. Don't ANY basketball players have to graduate to placate the NCAA? Or are those few white guys at the end of the bench who never play upholding the academic end of things for the Wildcats?

 

[sportstalent]

Something I have never understood is how all these one and done kids don't affect the graduation rate at Kentucky. Don't ANY basketball players have to graduate to placate the NCAA? Or are those few white guys at the end of the bench who never play upholding the academic end of things for the Wildcats?

I brought this same question up a year ago. Apparently, if the kid is in good academic standing when they leave school then all is forgiven. The NCAA took away the APR score for those kids and them not graduating in the six years that they had prior to the NBA rule is now null and void as well.

The NCAA used to have a 5 and 3 rule, which I liked, this did dismantle the Arizona program after 1997 when they lost 8 scholarship players due to graduation and the NCAA denied their petition in 1999 or 2000 to sign over the 5 and 3 rule and they were left with just 7, IIRC, scholarship players because they had signed their allotted amount of scholarships in the two year period of 8.

I would like to see the NCAA bring back something similar, but allow the team to sign up to 5 players in the 3 year if they lost kids to the NBA, it wouldn't allow a program like Kentucky to corral every one of those kids, but they would still get their fair share of the one and dones. It would still have holes, but Kentucky wouldn't be able to sign 8 kids a year along with the three of four top 10 kids they have returning every year as well.