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Yeah there was no real argument for it, but nobody cared becuase the general public was sick of these young punks in the nba when they should be getting an education just like Larry Bird and Chris Mullin did.

 

i think you should be able to jump right away or have to wait 3 years.

 

i watch more college basketball than pro basketball and i like seeing pro-prospects, not jon scheyer.

 

I think you'd have an overrun of high school kids in the NBDL that way, which is fine by me. Europe would benefit quite a bit too. I think you'd get a lot more kids not going to college under that plan compared to the leave whenever you want plan.

 

I've long argued for the baseball rule to be adopted in basketball. Seems the best of both worlds. Kids shouldn't be prevented from skipping straight to the NBA. The college game would be improved, in my opinion, and the NCAA could at least keep up appearances of student-athletes. The one-year rule is an abomination.

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It made its rounds pretty quickly.

 

Now this is what makes the internet valuable.

 

Of course, then there was this Kentucky blogger's twitter post:

 

The Chicago Sun-Times says according to a reliable source, Anthony Davis will choose Kentucky

 

Figures.

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I think an NBA or 2 years in college rule would be better for basketball than baseball's 3 years.
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Mike Shaw is on Illinois campus right now. Come on Mike.

 

it will end by friday. he will be an illini.

I hope you are right. If this happens and barring any major injuries, in a few years we should have our most talented team ever. Wish Deron could have been here with this group around him.

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Brendan Dawson has committed to Michigan State. Sucks to be a Purdue fan right now.

 

I wish we had 200K for top players like Kentucky.

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I don't see how a straight to NBA or 2/3 years in college rule would be legal or enforceable in the first place. It would require cooperation between the NCAA and the NBA and the players union already hates the age limit rule. Plus how would universities force the NBA not to draft players after only one year of college?
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Brendan Dawson has committed to Michigan State. Sucks to be a Purdue fan right now.

 

good for illini fans though

 

I'm kinda disappointed. Purdue fans just don't melt down like Illini fans. This is almost Shaun Livingston bad for their program and their message board was not nearly as exciting as I had hoped.

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I haven't been following the Dawson recruitment, but I was under the impression that he was a lock to Purdue.

 

I assumed everyone's talk about age rules were with regard to the NBA instituting it. You're right though, the NBA has no reason to institute it.

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For whatever reason, UCLA was aggressively going after Dawson. It seemed like a 2-team race between MSU and Purdue the whole time but I never got the impression one school was ahead of the other.
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Purdue is primed for their best season in a very long time (if everyone stays healthy this time around). It's tough to get all worked up about Dawson.

 

Painter has recruited well enough to get them to within an inch of being #1 overall in the country last year. We've got two very nice guards coming in this year (Terone/Anthony Johnson). Apparently Bade (6' 8") worked really hard in the offseason and will resemble a D1 player this year. I liked what I saw from Byrd (6' 5") in limited time at the end of the year. Barlow (6' 5") is a terrific athlete if he can stay smart on the court. Sandi Marcius (6' 9" 260lbs of him) and Travis Carroll (6' 9" 250) join the team this year.

 

Throw in the obvious Moore, Hummel, Johnson, LewJack and this is the deepest Purdue team that I can remember.

 

If anything I'm optimistic about our future.

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Purdue is primed for their best season in a very long time (if everyone stays healthy this time around). It's tough to get all worked up about Dawson.

 

Painter has recruited well enough to get them to within an inch of being #1 overall in the country last year. We've got two very nice guards coming in this year (Terone/Anthony Johnson). Apparently Bade (6' 8") worked really hard in the offseason and will resemble a D1 player this year. I liked what I saw from Byrd (6' 5") in limited time at the end of the year. Barlow (6' 5") is a terrific athlete if he can stay smart on the court. Sandi Marcius (6' 9" 260lbs of him) and Travis Carroll (6' 9" 250) join the team this year.

 

Throw in the obvious Moore, Hummel, Johnson, LewJack and this is the deepest Purdue team that I can remember.

 

If anything I'm optimistic about our future.

 

I hope you're right about Bade, because he looked completely lost and very slow last season. I'm hoping Barlow can stay smart on AND off the court. The guy was an immature d-bag last season, and I'm hoping he's grown up quite a bit. I also like what I saw from Byrd, and I'm hoping he can build off of the success he had at the end of the season and give the team some good minutes. The one player that I'm really excited to see is Marcius. Purdue could really use a guy his size in the paint. A full season of healthy LewJack (and obviously Hummel, that goes without saying) will be really nice.

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Oh, it's not going away:

SunTimes.com[/url]"]The University of Kentucky on Thursday denied a Chicago Sun-Times report that a $200,000 deal was made to get a top Chicago high school basketball player to attend the school, according to a law firm representing the university.

 

Sources told the Sun-Times the father of 6-10 Anthony Davis, a highly recruited senior basketball player, negotiated a deal that promised $200,000 from someone who wanted Davis to commit to Kentucky.

 

The university ''disputes the accuracy of your proposed statements,'' according to a letter from the law firm, which was sent by e-mail Thursday to the Sun-Times.

 

Anthony Davis Sr., the father of the 17-year-old player, also has flatly denied the allegations.

 

''We haven't asked anyone for anything, and no one has offered us anything,'' Davis Sr. said last week at a club basketball event in Merrillville, Ind.

 

Another source told the Sun-Times that the NCAA is ''checking'' into the recruitment of Davis.

 

''The University of Kentucky has spoken with Mr. David Price, NCAA vice president of enforcement,'' according to the letter to the Sun-Times, which was written by Kevin G. Henry of the Lexington, Ky., law firm Sturgill, Turner, Barker and Moloney, PLLC. ''He advised that whatever inquiry you received from an NCAA person was merely asking you for information about your sources for your article, and that this is not confirmation of an 'investigation' of the University of Kentucky or an examination of the recruitment of the named student-athlete by the NCAA.''

 

When the original story detailing the discussions and the $200,000 agreement was posted online Wednesday, the university posted a letter on its own website from its law firm asking the Sun-Times to withdraw publication of the story.

 

'Please be advised that the article is false and defamatory and could lead to legal action,'' stated the letter, which was signed by attorney Stephen L. Barker.

 

Sources from three separate universities told the Sun-Times that Davis Sr. asked for money in return for his son's commitment, with the amounts ranging from $125,000 to $150,000.

 

When reached Thursday, Davis Sr. declined to respond further, saying: ''Thanks for ruining my son. Thank you very much.''

 

Georgette L. Greenlee, an attorney representing Davis Sr. and his wife, Erainer Eberhardt-Davis, also denied the original Sun-Times story.

 

''Mr. Davis has not asked any university or college for any commitment fee for his son, nor has anything been offered to him or Mrs. Davis,'' Greenlee wrote Thursday.

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Rumors that Davis' commitment is for sale through his father have surfaced since he cut his list of schools to Kentucky, Ohio State and Syracuse. Last week he added DePaul to that group, visiting the Lincoln Park campus Monday. On Tuesday, Davis Sr. told media outlets that a decision had been made, but no timetable was given for an announcement. Sources have told the Sun-Times that Kentucky was Davis' choice.

 

And for good measure, the Sun-Times finishes with this:

Calipari has had trouble with the NCAA before.

 

• On Aug. 20, 2009, the NCAA ruled that Simeon grad Derrick Rose was ineligible to play for Calipari's Memphis team in 2007-08. Memphis was forced to vacate the entire 2007-08 season, including its runner-up finish in the NCAA tournament.

 

• Calipari took Massachusetts to the Final Four in 1996, but that appearance also was vacated after an NCAA investigation determined that Minutemen star Marcus Camby took $28,000 from two sports agents.

 

• In May, the New York Times reported that the NCAA was investigating the ''academic makeover and extra benefits'' former Kentucky guard Eric Bledsoe received while in high school in Alabama. According to the Times, the NCAA sent investigators to at least three places in Alabama to ask about Bledsoe.

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