ONE AND DONE?

BIG BLUE NATION! What do you think about the one done rule? I mean, obviously it is going to hurt us every year, and I think it is hurting the game as whole. I don't just mean the college game, the Pro game is watered down a lot.  I don't think the NBA gets the best players anymore.  They may get the most talented, but not the best players that the collegiate level has to offer.  Don't get me wrong, some kids should make the jump. Kobe Bryant and LeBron James are classic examples of players who could make the jump to the NBA and be affective right away. People like Derick Rose for example, one and done was perfect for him because he was ready, anyone could see that.  He probably could have went out of High School had it not been for the one and done rule. Besides the stand out players, there are a countless amount of average ball players that occupy a spot in the NBA.  These are the guys that I'm talking about, the guys that through their names in the draft and have not seen the court yet.  They have one or two good seasons in the NCAA and decide that they are ready for the NBA and end up getting traded around the league twice with no playing time anywhere they go.  Then they get pushed down to the D league to see if they can get better.  Besides the pay cut, most players have a hard time stepping down because they have always been the star.  By the time they swallow their pride and get use to a smaller pay check half of their career is over.  Then it time to go over seas and test the foreign waters.  Most players that play professionally overseas never make it back to the NBA, so they are lost forever in a ocean full of players just like themselves, average. How does the NCAA come up with a solution to a definite problem that will only get worse?  I have the answer.  Make it mandatory to go to the D League before entering into the NBA if a kid decides to come out before his junior year.  That way you will weed out the  mediocre players, and it will take away from the money urge that goes along with the NBA.  Place a fine on any agent or team owner for speaking to any under class men and make it large enough that most agents and owner will just lay off until the kid is a upper class man.  If a kid wants to make the jump into the Pros without going to college, let them go. But they will have to play their way through the D League like baseball's farm teams do.  This will change the mind set of the players because the D League is not as appealing as the show, or NBA.  Your not playing on TV, so most kids would rather stay in school, at least they would get TV time.  The money is the biggest issue. How does anyone expect these kids that come from nothing to turn down the money?  On the other hand, how does anyone expect a kid that has never had anything to handle that kind of money?  So, to me, there needs to be a go between.  A place that will pay a little, and help them increase their skills, and get them ready for the show.  Plus lets just face facts,  nobody wants to see VCU and Bradly in the final four.  I'm glad they made, but come on, VCU!  Bradly!  I think the final game field goal percentage for both UConn and Bradly was about 20% for the game.  That's a lot of freshmen and sophomores taking bad shots and a over worked Kemba Walker for UConn, and no bench for Bradly who had tired legs.  Take it from the Hosscat20, we are not doing kids a favor by letting them play one year and then making them millionaires.  Let them earn their way in the NBA.  They will respect themselves and the game a whole lot more.