The death of college basketball.
You know what I’m talking about.
First, keep Adam Silver the hell out of the sport.
The only thing he should be doing is getting rid of the one-and-done.
We’re talking specifically college basketball here.
What’s he going to do to help the sport?
Get rid of the one-and-done that’s it.
People love complaining that it ruined the sport, so get rid of it.
Let the NBA decide if they want to draft a kid out of high school or not.
Stop protecting dumb owners.
Once that’s gone then you’ll still have one-and-dones, sure.
But you’ll also have the multi-year players that we all slobber over.
Well, except Zach Edey.
Every non-Purdue fan is over him being tall apparently.
I also know people love to bitch about NIL but it’s keeping guys in college for four years.
Instead of chasing an overseas contract or a 2-way deal or whatever, those fringe guys are coming back.
Stop pretending like guys weren’t making money before, it was all ‘under the table.’
Also good luck changing anything because the NCAA is just going to keep getting sued and likely losing.
Speaking of the G-League and G-League Ignite:
Whoops!
Guess college basketball didn’t die because a handful of decent prospects went that route.
Almost, like college basketball can survive nearly anything because we cheer for laundry.
You don’t care who plays for your team, you cheer for your school.
It’s that simple.
For those screaming transfer portal.
But the transfer portal should be an easy fix.
That’s the one exception.
Nobody loves college basketball because the players are better than the NBA or anything like that.
There are still stupid, disgusting, hideous plays.
Just watch Virginia have a go at run offense this year.
Hell, right now you have a UConn team as a favorite to go back-to-back.
People are already comparing them to the Florida team that did it.
There’s ridiculous stories every single night.
You have teams trying to win different ways.
You have a million different styles.
Look at the top-10 right now.
UConn is seen as balanced.
Houston will dogfight you to the death on defense.
Purdue has a really tall guy.
Iowa State is boring as hell but just wins.
Alabama might have a go at shoot 100 threes in one game.
There’s no recipe for success.
It’s why the Tournament is the best event in the world.
It makes no goddamn sense but it’s beautiful.
So let’s all agree to stop trying to kill college basketball.
It’s not perfect, no shit.
There are things need to be changed.
Until the day happens, sit back and enjoy the show.
