Bob Knight: NBA has 'raped' college basketball

[OUHoops]

http://www.cbssports.com/collegebas...0/bob-knight-nba-has-raped-college-basketball

 

[WTSooner]

They did away with the rule allowing kids to jump straight from HS to the NBA, correct? IMO, they need to bring it back. Give kids the option of declaring for the draft right out of HS (hopefully most would not), or force them to spend two years in college ball (or wherever). Problem solved, for the most part.

 

[campbest]

Coming from the same man who said, "...if rape is inevitable, lay back and enjoy it."

Fitting from Mr. Knight.

 

[skyvue]

Coming from the same man who said, "...if rape is inevitable, lay back and enjoy it."

Fitting from Mr. Knight.

Yes, it's too bad that the English language is so limited in scope that there were simply no other words he could have used to describe the NBA's impact on college hoops.

What a tool he is.

 

[IndySooner]

Don't like the wording....

That said, basketball needs to go with a system similar to baseball. You can go out of high school, but if you decide to go to college, you're there for three years.

It would help both leagues, in my opinion. Instead, Mark Cuban, etc., are busy trying to kill college basketball because they see it as a competitor.

 

[campbest]

Don't like the wording....

That said, basketball needs to go with a system similar to baseball. You can go out of high school, but if you decide to go to college, you're there for three years.

It would help both leagues, in my opinion. Instead, Mark Cuban, etc., are busy trying to kill college basketball because they see it as a competitor.

The NBA would love a model similar to baseball...they would capitalize on players who don't want to go to college in a heartbeat, D-League would begin to prosper.

BTW...Cuban would prefer the draft age to be 21.

 

[nikebasketball]

They did away with the rule allowing kids to jump straight from HS to the NBA, correct? IMO, they need to bring it back. Give kids the option of declaring for the draft right out of HS (hopefully most would not), or force them to spend two years in college ball (or wherever). Problem solved, for the most part.

i agree with you make everyone stay for 2 years.

 

[BCSooners]

Terrible choice of words.

If a kid wants to go straight to the NBA out of high school then let him, but he should be allowed to have someone represent him out of high school so he can get an accurate reading on his draft status. If he gets all the information and decides college would be best then he should receive no penalty for having a representative after HS and before college. I think a problem that we had when all the kids in HS were leaving early was that they were getting the wrong information from family and "friends". They just wanted them to bolt so they could receive some benefits, instead of having a third party, someone who would give them an accurate reading so they have the opportunity make an intelligent decision.

 

[sperry]

Terrible choice of words.

If a kid wants to go straight to the NBA out of high school then let him, but he should be allowed to have someone represent him out of high school so he can get an accurate reading on his draft status. If he gets all the information and decides college would be best then he should receive no penalty for having a representative after HS and before college. I think a problem that we had when all the kids in HS were leaving early was that they were getting the wrong information from family and "friends". They just wanted them to bolt so they could receive some benefits, instead of having a third party, someone who would give them an accurate reading so they have the opportunity make an intelligent decision.

Everyone who declares for the draft should be required to have a sitdown with a league funded, neutral advisory committee. They should be allowed to back out if they don't like what they hear from the neutral party.

 

[sdcloud9]

I read an article a few years ago that said the NBA teams love the one and done rule because they don't have to scout high school kids as much.

They then get 30+ college games to see a kid and judge his value as a prospect.

 

[BCSooners]

Everyone who declares for the draft should be required to have a sitdown with a league funded, neutral advisory committee. They should be allowed to back out if they don't like what they hear from the neutral party.

agreed

 

[Soonerman]

It's Knight so there's no filter, but he's right.

 

[SoonerBounce13]

verb (used with object), raped, rap·ing.
6.
to force to have sexual intercourse.

7.
to plunder (a place); despoil.

8.
to seize, take, or carry off by force.

. Nothing wrong with what he said

 

[steverocks35]

. Nothing wrong with what he said

Just because a word has a secondary meaning that fits doesn't mean that the word is appropriate in a certain context. He could've used "plundered", "decimated", "damaged", or any of numerous other words or expressions that weren't quite as loaded. But it is Bob Knight and he's a horse's ass deluxe, so consider the source.

 

[SoonerBounce13]

Just because a word has a secondary meaning that fits doesn't mean that the word is appropriate in a certain context. .

Or just because the CURRENT primary definition of a word doesn't fit the context doesn't mean it can't be used

 

[steverocks35]

Or just because the CURRENT primary definition of a word doesn't fit the context doesn't mean it can't be used

It's a free country, of course it CAN be used, if you want to sound like an insensitive asshole anyway.

 

[bocabull]

They did away with the rule allowing kids to jump straight from HS to the NBA, correct? IMO, they need to bring it back. Give kids the option of declaring for the draft right out of HS (hopefully most would not), or force them to spend two years in college ball (or wherever). Problem solved, for the most part.

Nothing ever prevented kids from leaving college after 1 year. All the rule did was force Kevin Durant, John Wall & Anthony Davis to attend 1 year of college. There was never any rule that forced them to stay once they attended. Carmelo played a season, won a title and went to the NBA.

Please tell me how it was bad for college basketball for those guys to play 1 year instead of the none that Lebron, Kobe, Dirk & Kevin Garnett played.

 

[skyvue]

Or just because the CURRENT primary definition of a word doesn't fit the context doesn't mean it can't be used

I'd bet my rent money and yours that Bob Knight, if asked, could not cite any secondary definitions for that word.

 

[SoonerBounce13]

I'd bet my rent money and yours that Bob Knight, if asked, could not cite any secondary definitions for that word.

I bet you are wrong

 

[skyvue]

I bet you are wrong

Doesn't matter. As someone stated above, to blithely use that word, given its most widely accepted contemporary meaning (as you yourself stated), even when so many other words are available for getting his message across, is insensitive at best.