The College Basketball System Is Broke

The College Basketball System is broke and needs to be fixed. The era of "the one-and-done" college player needs to come to an abrupt halt. The number of college basketball players running to the bank via the NBA after their Freshman year is growing by leaps and bounds. Julius Randle from Kentucky, Jabarai Parker from SDuke, and James Michael McAdoo from North Carolina are just a few of the big name underclassmen that are bolting to the pro's this year. At least McAdoo made it to his Junior year.The most common argument is that college players need to be paid. They are being paid with a college education. At Universities like Duke that is probably worth $300-400,000 over the course of four years. A few years ago, high school phenom Brandon Jennings decided to even circumvent the one year rule by playing in Europe for a year before he turned pro. Kentucky brings in 5 to 6 Freshmen a year that all go pro after one year. These players are supposed to be "student-athletes", representative of the universities student population. If they know they are only going to be there for one year, I can only imagine what their class schedule looks like. I wonder if they even bother going to class after Spring Break is over with.