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[downtown85]

Looks like we're - again - looking from the outside in.

Not surprised.  I can't blame Green for looking elsewhere than MU when the coach here put's his hat into the ring every time a high profile job opens up.  Crean actually is shooting himself in the foot (recruiting-wise) by not publicly excluding himself from KU job and other high profile jobs...unless, of course, he takes the job.  He should publicly say, "not interested MU is my family" a la Slick Rick or other coaches will certainly tell potential recruits he ain't going to be here for their 4 full years. 

[muwarrior87]

TC has only taken a chance on one guy that I can remember and that didn't pan out

I'm pretty sure TC took a chance on this academically ineligible kid a couple of years ago... that kid turned out to be pretty good 

YEAH D-WADE!!

[Niv Berkowitz]

MU Hoops1 - Understand the point you are trying to make. Just giving a warning (albeit, a little harshly). I'd only counter that there are hundreds/thousands of h.s. athletes that enter college deemed "headcases" by these standards. Not to say you are wrong. I'm just saying....that's what the coach is for. It's his job to determine the potential risk/reward of a player and whether or not he can control him and make him help - not hurt - the team. To Crean's credit, I don't think he's allowed a player that stayed through graduation to do this.

I remember him publicly going off on Joe Chapman after the DePaul game last year for not acting like a senior and he stepped up from there out. As long as TC's willing to put his foot down, al should be o.k. and I'm willing to take my chance on Trevor.

[RawdogDX]

I have no idea why so many of you are anti this rule.
College bball get's to have more great players, so what if they leave after a year.  That's nothing new. I really enjoyed watching durrant and oden.  Are you mad about getting to see them?  Best center match up in the final 4 since the 80's not a good thing?

NBA teams will have a better idea of what they are getting into.  No way the bulls end up with eddie curry and tyson chandler with this rule, or if they did those two would be better players for having spent the pre pro year in school.  Are you mad at teams for wanting their huge investments in their picks to back up that investment by showing they can compete against people older than 17?

High school kids get to spend a year living for free, hooking up with college girls and increasing their marketability.  Oh, the poor things! God help Oden, if only he had been able to go to the NBA his quality of life would have been SO much bettter.  Durant's shoe contarct will be what? 50 million more than it would have been a year ago?

College isn't for everyone?  FIne go play in europe. 
If i had a job i would take it out of highschool!  - Yes good for you.  But now they don't because their potental employers (NBA TEAMS) decided that they wanted their entrie level employees to have some post highschool experience before getting hired.  Sorry guess the NBA isn't a McJob, get over it.

[SoCalwarrior]

Nobody is crying for Oden.  After getting our asses kicked by other countries in our own sport, Stern is trying to improve his product by imposing a rule that will save the league's owners and gms from making their usual poor draft choices.  Forget that a one year rule is short sighted for the NBA, but what most people take issue with is that the current NCAA class requirement rules are not set up for kids who plan on playing only one season.  Under current rules, a kid only needs to pass 9 credits of bowling, rock history and the rhymes of Tupac to be eligible for that one and done season.  This eats at the core of a school's integrity and credibility. 

[RawdogDX]

Nobody is crying for Oden.  After getting our asses kicked by other countries in our own sport, Stern is trying to improve his product by imposing a rule that will save the league's owners and gms from making their usual poor draft choices.  Forget that a one year rule is short sighted for the NBA, but what most people take issue with is that the current NCAA class requirement rules are not set up for kids who plan on playing only one season.  Under current rules, a kid only needs to pass 9 credits of bowling, rock history and the rhymes of Tupac to be eligible for that one and done season.  This eats at the core of a school's integrity and credibility. 

Don't put this all on stern.  It was an owner vote.  And once again I don't care.  Kids don't have to go to class, don't have to do homework, don't have to study for tests unless you count memorizing the tests given to them ahead of time.  You think that having them take a few more classes under those circumstances would re-establish a school's integrity and credibility?
College basketball is a business.  I enjoy it's product.  I enjoy it more with oden and durrant playing this year than i would have with out them.  Just don't care about the rest of your arguments.