Sometimes when something seems to good to be true....it is.

Confusion-1966

Maybe he took online classes when he went to Franklin and Rainier Beach High School to avoid ever stepping into the city limits?

I have no doubt JG would take Armon over  and over. I have done the smae thing in my life in choosing to see the good in people to a fault

The problem is that with the idea that it was OK in the first place. Is that where collegiate athletics are headed or maybe already are? That it is ok to take guys who have misplaced priorites and suspect character in order to justify a tourney run? Who knows without the influence of one character in the locker room and off the court how good a team we could have had with Coleman and Kinney and how much more the 5 frosh sitting in the apratment listening to that brand of leadership could have been? They had a great run but you are not going to convince me that they would not have been better without some of the stuff that he brought to hte table.

I do not think justifying it no matter who the HC is an effective strategy. YOu folks are alums....you have a better idea of what your OU degree means to you. If sharing that  collegiate experiencewith guys like the ones you ridiculed at Can't is OK then it is easy to say the same for supporting the talent > sins concept. I suspect , as a group of fans we would rather identify with Butler, Gonzaga, VCU than Can't or the Bluebloods of college basketball that condone "Athetes Gone Wild"

Personally, I am gonna rip every coach who does not do the right thing. it affects the experience of 14 other players and denigrates the quality of the institution. I  believe in reform and giving guys 2nd chances but I tend to check in often and pull the chain very tightly. JG clearly did not see that as his role. Jury is still out on JC. .

Which sounds like the situation in this case.  As Borna said, the jury is still out.  But the early deliberations appear positive.  We'll see.

I blame the NBA. 

Or, maybe I should say this is one of the reasons why Major League Baseball is better than basketball.  In MLB, this kid signs a minor league contract and goes and plays ball.  Nobody cares about any of this.  Maybe he makes it by the time he is 23 or 25.  But, he's getting paid to play.

To get to the NBA, he has to spend a few years taking Classics and World Religions classes. 

Why is this again?.....

Good luck to you Mr. Adams.  Sorry college is a basically a minimum occupational requirement for your sport.

Ohio69 has a good point here. 3 major sports in this country (Baseball, Hockey, & Soccer) don't seem to give a crap if you go to college.

Why does the NBA & NFL? (A free minor league system and direct exposure for their draft possibly?)

I'm starting to think a solution to all of this non-educational, non-scholastic madness is to create a minor league system for the NBA & NFL. Athletes get paid their value, scholar athletes are both scholars and athletes, the NCAA product is diluted but provides parity and competition.

AND This football hungry nation gets more football!

I've never understood why the NFL doesn't add a minor league, college experience restrictions or not.  1 minor league team for each NFL team, meaning 32 more markets get football...and would still have a lot of recognizable names.  The US is obsessed with football, and fans of the big club would closely follow the happenings of their respective minor league team.  A Packers minor league team in Milwaukee, a Cowboys minor league team in Oklahoma City, etc. The league would generate solid revenues...And they could do away with the "scout team" nonsense and have a fresh set of players on the cheap ready to step up when a change is needed at the big club.

As for the NBA, eh I'm not so certain it would work as well.

From what I understand the player's association is the place that the pressure to keep college in the mix. The other push comes from the teams inwho feel playing the year of college gives their organizations time to evaluate the talent. Having pro scouts at high school games is a logistical nightmare both in season and in summer ball

Football, has more to do with the physical maturity of a big school senior vs a 2nd year colleges athlete. who has been in the weight room, on a good diet and has been trained. There are still growth plates open in some of those he seniors and college frosh. Throwing them into a game with grown beasts is downright dangerous

Is that actually a position you have heard overly or covertly discussed? I have often wondered if, from the ncaa side there is some pressure. My sourcess have it coming from the league and players association. It would be a money makert for sure but I have never been able to verify or heard anything from the ncaa or any member schools of the noon profit entity that they feel there would be a degraded product or a significant revenue loss. The NFL safety committee weighed in a few years back when the Ohio state kid tried to come out early. 

I have long been a proponent of letting them come out. I do not think we would lose one bit of competition or product quality. If a kid wants to enter the job market and skip college..... have at it.... If the y fail so what? Thousands of kids do it every day. We should not be artificially propping them up nor should we be happy with an aging veteran in the league protecting his job. 

If the issue is nba scouts surrounding high school kids let the nfhs be very clear on the rules of contact. We do not have to look after the members of a free society and ensure safeguards for their success. People in all walks of life succeed and fail every day without strict oversight- if the NFL has studies that shoe young men get really hurts when they get crushed by steroid laced 6'5 300lb linemen then put an age limit or even a medical opinion on whether they are ready for that contact

First post and the guy nails it. Welcome.

Since he never enrolled at Ohio and Christian is recommending a JuCo, is it possible that he was denied admission for some reason?

just wondering how these clubs are financed? It seems like it would be difficult to break the college control of bb, a lot of money involved for them, so how do you see breaking that monopoly?

I'm not sure what the practice schedule is for older kids but my son (just entering 4th grade) has two or three two-hour practices a week, year round with his AAU team.  In the Winter/Spring they have tournaments about every other weekend and in the Fall they play one league game a week.  That's pretty typical for most AAU teams in my area (Washington DC).