<p>Well if that’s true then I can’t argue with the facts.</p>
<p>Though I think there is a pretty fine line between players like Rose and other D1 players (assuming we’re speaking in terms of their skill).</p>
<p>yea in terms of the skill, if Rose wanst on Memphis, they wouldnt have made it out of the round of 32 (remember they won that game by 3 points over Miss. State that year)</p>
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<p>Fine line in terms of skill but not academic credentials. The NCAA didn’t need him, and he didn’t need the NCAA.</p>
<p>^but the NBA forced him to go to the NCAA.</p>
<p>Thats why that rule needs to be banned…Mayo wouldnt have gone to the NCAA and caused his problems if the NBA revoked its rule.</p>
<p>Thus, he needed to do what he needed to do to be eligible for the NBA draft.</p>
<p>He didn’t need to do it, and the NCAA didn’t need to accept him. Both sides had other, better options.</p>
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<p>No they did not.</p>
<p>Derrick Rose shouldn’t have gone to college in the first place.</p>
<p>Plus, kids are recruited for basketball as early as middle school and sometimes even earlier. Why concentrate on academics for a 6 figure salary when you can play basketball all day and earn a 7 figure salary (given that you love both)?</p>
<p>Seriously though, just because one athlete couldn’t make the cut doesn’t mean others can’t. In fact, there are tons of top recruits that get extraordinary grades (even in CC terms).</p>
<p>Didn’t he have someone take it for him? Why’d he get someone who would get a 750?</p>
<p>Uh yea the NBA forced him to go to college…</p>
<p>Do you guys not know about the new rule with basketball?</p>
<p>One year out of high school is required for a athlete to apply to the NBA draft.</p>
<p>Read under 2005 and beyond with the new collective barganing agreement
[NBA</a> high school draftees - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia](<a href=“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prep-to-pro]NBA”>NBA high school draftees - Wikipedia)</p>
<p>LeBron James and all those guys were allowed High School -> NBA, but not anymore.</p>
<p>Otherwise Mayo and Rose woulda gone straight to NBA.</p>
<p>Where would Rose go then? To Europe? And drop like Brandon Jennings (Jennings would have been #1 if the NBA did not have that rule)? There was no other option…it was basically go to college…otherwise his draft stock woulda plummeted and would probably be making millions less then he is now. Notice how all those high school athelets went to college…he probalby didnt even consider the Europe option…that was a total loophole. </p>
<p>Thats why the NBA rule is bad…it basically caused all of this mess.</p>
<p>Or they could go to Europe like Brandon Jennings did get get paid a mil + expenses.
Derrick Rose is one of the top PGs in the NBA. I enjoy watching him play and feel he shouldn’t have had gone to college.</p>
<p>^Yea I kinda mentioned that…but Jennings was after Rose…Rose probalby didnt find the Europe loophole…besdides Europe didnt exactly work out for Jennings…hes not gonna be only a #10 pick instead of #1…losing more money.</p>
<p>But doesnt matter…At the end of the day, Rose, Memphis, and Calipari willl suffer no real damage…they will probalby just have that season erased…which doesnt really matter because we will still remember it (just like the Fab 5, which had all their things erased too, but no one actually forgets them)</p>
<p>he’s a hell of a point guard. imo his basketball ability is what matters at the end of the day. ppl need to realize that the majority of sat testers dont meet the standards of cc (I.e. ZOMFG LIEK I GOT A 2390 SHOULD I RETAKE???)</p>
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<p>No, they did not. He had the option of playing overseas, playing junior college, playing in the NBDL and I believe he could’ve just sat a year out of HS.</p>
<p>Also, Jennings would not have gone #1 over Griffin and Rubio. At best, he would’ve gone #3. Now, at worst, he goes #14 at the end of the lottery. So Jennings goes from $4M max. to $1.8M min. I think he’ll manage.</p>
<p>^But Rose probably didnt think of those options (no one before him did that)</p>
<p>Jennings is a PG, if he had the season Rose had last year in college, he might have gone over Griffin (Rose went over Beasley, who pretty much had the greatest or near greatest season for a freshman ever last year)</p>
<p>There were rumors that OJ Mayo and others were considering going barnstorming, playing exhibitions across the US. Nobody had done it yet, but the other options were out there and people knew about them. Jennings didn’t play in college because he couldn’t get the required SAT score, the same should have been true of Rose.</p>
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<p>Sometimes posts like these are funny, but at this point in this thread it’s just annoying.</p>
<p>If the NBA wants kids to play ball who don’t have the intelligence to go to college, they need to institute something better.</p>
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quote: No, they did not. He had the option of playing overseas, playing junior college, playing in the NBDL and I believe he could’ve just sat a year out of HS.</p>
<p>You obviously do not know the perks of being a D1 athlete.</p>
<p>1232cricket: “(Jennings would have been #1 if the NBA did not have that rule)”?
bull crap. show me a source that says that. most mock draft boards had jennings going near the 4 or 5 spot in the draft. the drop is nowhere near as much as what you’re exaggerating.</p>
<p>as far as my opinion on this, i agree we shouldnt expect rose to get a 2400 when clearly it would be more beneficial to his future to focus on his basketball. however, the rule states that a player just needs to be out of high school for one year before entering the draft. therefore, europe or another minor league are also viable options. the fact that he went to a D-I university with such an abysmal score makes a sheer mockery out of the process. in my mind, what is even worse is that this excuse for a journalist is trying to defend rose. the poorly constructed, hypocritical, fallacious defense presented here makes me question the author’s own SAT score</p>
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