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...and it's only going to get worse. It's not even college basketball anymore.

I see the future of college basketball dominated by just a few teams. The "Cinderellas" of the NCAA tournament will be even more rare. There's too much money, too many "advisors" and too many college administrations willing to go along with anything in order to have a championship program.

I don't know if there is any way to solve it but I don't believe that keeping these NBA-bound kids in college will help. They are not and never will be college students. I think one thing that would help is to just let them go the NBA right out of high school.

http://www.cbssports.com/collegebasketball/story/18482120/muhammads-choice-a-shoein-for-adidas-school-ucla (http://www.cbssports.com/collegebasketball/story/18482120/muhammads-choice-a-shoein-for-adidas-school-ucla)

Agreed, it's a terribly dirty business.  AAU ball is another corrupt component.

The only surprising thing in that story is that Adidas won over Nike.

I've been advocating the baseball rule for NCAA basketball for a long time. Let them enter straight out of high school if they want, but if they decide to play college ball, they are committed to three years. A lot of the shoe and agent money is directed at the kids who would choose to skip college anyway, IMO.

That's exactly what they should do.  It would root out probably 75% of the corruption going on in the game right now.  And here's an "outside the box" idea: What if the NCAA signed one massive apparel deal with one shoe company, split the proceeds equally, and forced all their individual members to comply once their current deal expires?  It's probably not legally realistic, but it would sure put an end to all of that Nike/Addidas BS. :dunno:

At least Calipari lost.  That fizzle.