Quote Originally Posted by Dawg61 View Post
The problem with college basketball has been discussed ad nauseam in the last decade. There's 3 main reasons why it's become a declining product.

1. The NBA's one and done rule poaches the top 30-40 players every year. The NBA doesn't have a sustainable minor league system like baseball either so players are forced to leave early if they are going to get drafted. They can't wait and risk losing their spot. NBA teams don't like to draft upperclassmen or graduates as much as they like to draft on potential.

2. The AAU game has totally corrupted and destroyed high school basketball causing a rippling effect into the college game. Players play for themselves to try to get ranked as high as possible so the NBA will draft them. They have about a two year window to get drafted high in or they are ****ed so they are forced to play selfish basketball instead of disciplined team basketball.

3. The officiating is horrible in college basketball on purpose to try and improve the shooting from the players before they go to the NBA. They basically don't want the defender to touch the shooter at all ever which helps the offensive players to learn how to shoot as best as possible before they go to the NBA. The NBA gives zero ****s that they are destroying college basketball and apparently college basketball also gives zero ****s that the NBA is destroying their product. Somebody is giving the NCAA billions of dollars to put out a lesser product than it had 20 years ago and the NCAA bends over and takes it with a smile.

Everyone has complained up and down for years and years about this but there's nothing getting done because people investing the most money in it want it this way.
I'd agree with all of that, except maybe the reason for the officiating. I just know it's bad, I don't know why. Heck I'd NEVER thought that I say it but old John Clougherty, Don Rutledge, and Gerald Boudreaux would look like good officials now. That is definitely a comment in how bad things have gotten, not that those guys were good officials. If they just stop trying to make college basketball into the NBA Jr it would help.