One and Done: College Basketball's Silent Killer
Background
A one and done in college basketball is defined as a college basketball player who withdraws from school to enter the NBA draft after only one year of collegiate play. While there have been great players who have been successful going the one and done path for example, Kevin Durant. There have also been many one and done players who were and are out of the league by age 21 for example Josh Shelby, Rodney White, Joe Alexander. The One and done rule is ruining the greatness of college basketball it’s sucking the life out of traditional basketball powerhouses who attract the top high school players in the country and, its ultimately ruining the lives of those players who don’t make it. There are many dangers and stories that even true hoop-fanatics don’t know about.
Effect on NCAA Tournament
Initially one of the worst effects of the one and done on college basketball is the effect that it’s having on college basketball. Every year since the NBA changed its required age limit to enter the draft to nineteen, we have begun to see more NCAA tournament upsets every year. According to Courtney Taylor of About Stastistics.com says “It reached an all time frantic in 2012 when 15 seed’s Lehigh University and, Norfolk State two little known schools, who were probably just happy to be in the tournament pulled off upsets against powerhouses Duke and Missouri” (Taylor pg. 1). Normally a college basketball fan would love a good upset like those but statistics show that since 1990 only seven fifteen seeds have beaten a two seed and three of them have happened since the age change in the NBA draft back in 2005. (2014 pg. 1)
Now how this relates to the one and done rule...
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In the last ten years many young and talented high school basketball players have chosen to enter the NBA draft. These 17 and 18 year olds decide to skip college, and instead they choose to take a big risk and enter the NBA, hoping to become stars and earn millions of dollars. In many cases, these youngsters’ careers are a failure because they don’t turn out as talented as they thought to be. They end up spending only a few seasons in the NBA because they are not good enough to compete at that level. Many of them have to move on to doing other things, such as playing basketball overseas, doing everyday jobs, or going back to college to earn a degree.
Too many college athletes are given the chance to go into a professional draft that doesn't require the athlete to complete all four years of college and earn a degree. This is a problem because athletes lack the college experience that will get them ready for real life situations as they carry out their sports career. In college they will learn skills and have extra time to be better prepared. Without staying in college for fours athletes won’t see that theres more options for them besides sports. It will be hard for them to see if they have other interests besides sports.
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The ones who believe that the jump from high school to the NBA should not be allowed have various reasons for there belief. The first being, that the players are not physically or emotionally ready for that drastic jump. The players could be hassled nonstop and catch a lot of criticism for how they play or what they have done wrong while playing. Physically they are not ready because, the other players are much bigger, stronger, and faster, this could lead to an early injury or end a career, also the long road trips and back to back game night in and night out. They are not emotionally ready because, they might not be able to handle the pressure on or off the court, they may become frightened and fall into a slump and never make it out. A way to deal with all of these problems is to not draft out of high school just draft players out of college. Players with college experience are ready for the NBA they know what’s its going to be like and have learned valuable skills to help the cope with the new life. Most people feel that the players will become ...
College basketball has gone from amateur competition to multi-million dollar tournaments and will continue to get larger and larger. The student-athlete is no longer a student and has become more and more of an athlete. Admissions are loosened and deals are made in order to get the best basketball players in the land. Athletes who are not students are criticized when they leave for the pros even though they are probably doing the right thing by not perpetuating the myth of academics and athletics. College basketball has become a multi-million dollar industry whether schools will admit it or not and the student athlete is the one getting played.
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There has been a lot of athletic scandals in colleges in most parts of the world. These scandals have been as a result of the coaches and the directors of athletics in the colleges failing to take the full force of the law and giving their players freedom to do everything even if it is against the law. One of this fatal scandals is the Baylor university basketball scandal that occurred in the year 2003. This scandal involved the players and the coaches of the team. The scandal left one player dead and the other imprisoned for thirty five years. The team was subjected to a lot of punishment by the National Collegiate Athletic Association. The NCAA is a non-profit organization comprised of 1281 institutions, organizations, individuals and conferences and that organizes the athletic programs of most of the colleges and universities in the United States and Canada (The New York Times, 2003).
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...ame all crossed paths as college kids. Building on collegiate stars gave pro basketball an identity. It allows players to develop better due to the superior coaching staff in colleges. Staying in college will also let players develop a valuable following, which benefits the NBA.
17 year-old Rashim Lancit was the standard senior at LaSalle High School. His best friends were Andrew and Colin. They played together for their high school basketball team. However, Rashim loved the game of basketball more than his friends and dreamed to go to the NBA. He thought there was no way that he would make it there. However, that all changed one Friday night at the LaSalle basketball game.
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