Daniel Orton considering going pro

[Sooner23]

http://newsok.com/kentuckys-daniel-...article/3448291?custom_click=headlines_widget

 

[mizzOUstu702]

Can anyone say DeAndre Jordan?

How can you average 14 minutes, 3 and 3, and think you can sniff the NBA? This guy has Euro/D-league written all over him if he leaves.

 

[PlanoGuy]

Can anyone say DeAndre Jordan?

How can you average 14 minutes, 3 and 3, and think you can sniff the NBA? This guy has Euro/D-league written all over him if he leaves.

DeAndre Jordan is actually doing pretty good in the NBA

 

[MercedeSooner]

yeah he is, he ll probably end up having a pretty long career as an athletic, long big man.

 

[CoachTalk]

Who gives these poor kids advice? I know J Cal isnt best for advice but someone needs to tell him to stay in school.

 

[stoops4pres]

What a poor decision if he bolts... Nothing more then a defensive role player at this point.

 

[BoulderSooner]

deandre jordan is in the rotation for the clippers and has had a very good year

 

[38red]

Who gives these poor kids advice? I know J Cal isnt best for advice but someone needs to tell him to stay in school.

You ever thought that maybe these kids don't like going to school! and they have the opportunity to make millions. especially at 6'10" and 260!

 

[Krugerfan52]

Can anyone say DeAndre Jordan?

How can you average 14 minutes, 3 and 3, and think you can sniff the NBA? This guy has Euro/D-league written all over him if he leaves.

Thats exactly what I thought. The thing is it's just the easiest thing to do. Get your butt kissed. Go play on year of ball. Not go to class. Then have no option but to leave.

It's sad. He averages like 3 ppg. It's a joke that kids like this think they should skip college to go pro. I was always completely against Orton coming to OU for this very reason. He's a good shot-blocker, but 3 ppg then off to the NBA is not a successful college career IMO.

 

[SoonerBounce13]

it makes me wonder if it is time to ditch the one and done rule. Let them go straight to the pros out of high school.

 

[boksooner]

The one and done rule is terrible for college. It is just another way for the NBA to use colleges as a more effective developmental league.

The NCAA should use a rule similar to college baseball. You can go pro straight from high school, but if you go to college you have to stay 2 or 3 years.

 

[MercedeSooner]

Most if not all coaches (Im assuming Cal is one of the ones who doesnt) hate the 1 year rule. It makes a mockery of the student athlete idea. These kids come to college, barely attend classes during the fall and just drop out during the spring and theyre supposed to be student athletes ?

Change it to 2 years so kids for at least 1 year have to pretend to care about school.

 

[qwertyqaz]

The one and done rule is terrible for college. It is just another way for the NBA to use colleges as a more effective developmental league.

The NCAA should use a rule similar to college baseball. You can go pro straight from college, but if you go to college you have to stay 2 or 3 years.

This idea has been trumpeted for so long now. It's about time the NCAA step up and do something that is solidly beneficial for college students and sports.

 

[JHop71]

The one and done rule is terrible for college. It is just another way for the NBA to use colleges as a more effective developmental league.

The NCAA should use a rule similar to college baseball. You can go pro straight from high school, but if you go to college you have to stay 2 or 3 years.

+1

 

[soonerroby]

This idea has been trumpeted for so long now. It's about time the NCAA step up and do something that is solidly beneficial for college students and sports.

You're asking for a lot there.

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iak9HxW6dHY[/ame]

 

[Sawyer]

I wouldn't like a baseball-style rule because I think that would encourage more kids to go straight to the NBA (having to spend 2-3 years in college would lead to guys like Carmelo Anthony never playing for Syracuse, and I don't want to see that... he was a 1 and done, but not the kind that's detrimental to the sport).

I'd prefer to just have a two-year limit. If guys don't want to spend two years in college, they can go play in Europe for two years and get paid. Some will take that route, but most won't. Ultimately, I think that would be better for the NBA. Most basketball fans don't know anything about high school players. Their first exposure to the best players is in college. If they skip college, we never really get to know them.

 

[Smash Williams]

The NCAA should use a rule similar to college baseball. You can go pro straight from high school, but if you go to college you have to stay 2 or 3 years.

How could the NCAA possibly enforce that? Those rules for draft eligibility are set by MLB; the NCAA isn't making baseball players stay in college for three years. How can the NCAA make a player stay in school 2 or 3 years? If the NBA still allows players to enter the draft one year after high school graduation, how is the NCAA going to stop a player from leaving after his freshman year of college? The NCAA doesn't determine who is or isn't eligible for the NBA or MLB drafts; that's up to the professional leagues themselves. I know the NCAA messes up a lot of things, and it's easy to automatically blame them for everything, but they didn't create the one-and-done rule; the NBA did.

 

[Smash Williams]

I'd prefer to just have a two-year limit. If guys don't want to spend two years in college, they can go play in Europe for two years and get paid. Some will take that route, but most won't. Ultimately, I think that would be better for the NBA. Most basketball fans don't know anything about high school players. Their first exposure to the best players is in college. If they skip college, we never really get to know them.

The NBA is almost certain to institute a two-year rule in the next CBA. The owners want it, and the players union will be willing to make that concession because it won't hurt the players who are already in the league.

 

[dubyac]

The one and done rule is terrible for college. It is just another way for the NBA to use colleges as a more effective developmental league.

The NCAA should use a rule similar to college baseball. You can go pro straight from high school, but if you go to college you have to stay 2 or 3 years.

i've been saying this forever... however like has been said the ncaa can't make this rule, but the nba can... and they should make it the same as the baseball rule... draft eligible out of highschool and junior college, but if you sign with a 4yr institution you are not eligible for the draft till the 3rd year removed from your highschool graduating class...

 

[coolm]

i've been saying this forever... however like has been said the ncaa can't make this rule, but the nba can... and they should make it the same as the baseball rule... draft eligible out of highschool and junior college, but if you sign with a 4yr institution you are not eligible for the draft till the 3rd year removed from your highschool graduating class...

I like this approach much more. Then allow the "waters to be tested" to see where they'd stand if they declared out of JUCO. A much more palatable plan in my book.