Major Changes Proposed For Basketball By 2018-19 Season

[Aargh]

The info available now is lacking a lot of detail, but...

Eliminate 1 and done
Lifetime ban for cheating coaches
More severe penalties for schools that cheat
Eliminate the apparel company, AAU money
Certify pro agents
Allow undrafted players back into college
Allow drafted players to remain in college if they don't sign contracts

All that is being proposed for the 2018-19 academic year.

(Open link in new private window if you are at your free read limit)

http://www.kansas.com/sports/college/article209776329.html

[Rocky Mountain Shock]

Most are good recommendations. I don't know how they would let drafted players back into college without severely disrupting the current recruiting and signing periods. They would have to completely change those rules. And it's interesting they didn't address the possibility of players earning compensation from their name and image.

[shock]

Change the recruiting and signing periods

[choida]

If you get drafted your amateur status is done... IMO

[SB Shock]

If you get drafted your amateur status is done... IMO

Why? It doesn’t happen in college baseball. Why should basketball be treated differently?

[Shocker_Power]

Why? It doesn’t happen in college baseball. Why should basketball be treated differently?

It's easier to work around one player unexpectedly coming back in baseball if they don't sign a contract. In basketball, you likely would have already filled that scholarship.

[rjl]

Being drafted shouldn't affect your amateur status at all. You haven't been paid to do anything related to the sport.

[asiseeit]

OK, but don't forgive the transgressions that have already occured

[choida]

Ok hiring an agent should do it

[rjl]

Somewhat related, the NBA is wanting to eliminate the one-and-done rule by 2020:

https://twitter.com/wojespn/status/989127862044299265

If the rules stay as they are and become more stringently enforced, I would see an immediate uptick in the amount of kids who play in Europe for a year before coming back to the NBA.

[SB Shock]

It's easier to work around one player unexpectedly coming back in baseball if they don't sign a contract. In basketball, you likely would have already filled that scholarship.

i disagree based on two point.

1. NCAA/schools will adjust their recruiting periods based on the rules. So the percieved problem will be minimize at the very least (and how many schools would even be affected).

2. This should not be a question of what is best for the school, but what is best for the student athlete. It not right to restrict student athletes differently based on sport.

[Shocker_Power]

2. This should not be a question of what is best for the school, but what is best for the student athlete. It not right to restrict student athletes differently based on sport.

I'm not in the pay for play camp so I'm not going to feel sorry for an athlete getting a free education. As to all sports being equal, not all scholarships are equal between different sports. Thus the reason not all the rules need to be equal.

[Steeleshocker]

To your own point, all scholarships have the same value, they are a free college education. Adjust the recruiting periods and this largely goes away. It would practically work out the way Landry declared, which was early enough to let us recruit his replacement.

If we are doing what is best for the student athlete, we set up the rules such that a kid who gets some bad advice does not make a irreparable decision and leave school before he is ready (Or gets an education), as opposed to protecting the school from a player who suddenly discovers the NBA wants him right now.

[ShockerEngr]

Baseball allows partial scholarships and most players aren't on a full scholarship, so it's not the same or free for most of them.

[Shock Top]

I was hoping this was going to be about expanding the 3-point line and moving to the 4-quarters system. (Like they’ve been testing in the NIT)

Though, some of these rules, if implemented correctly, I could be on board with.

[1979Shocker]

If the NBA doesn’t cooperate, Rice said her group will look at measures the NCAA can control, such as making freshmen ineligible.

Just think if that happened for next year. We'd be playing walk-ons just to have enough substitutes during the game.

[Sam Axe]

Nothing in these proposals will "fix" what is wrong in college basketball. Overall, a pretty unimaginative group of suggestions. This report took the committee 7 months (and who knows how much money) to come up with. I'm stealing Jeff *******'s line, someone could have written this down on a napkin at lunch.

postscript - I'm really tired of hearing about the 1 and done as if the NCAA has anything to do with it. That's the NBA and the NBA players union.