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The NBA instituted One-and-Done without input from the NCAA. Here's what the NCAA could do to get back some of the leverage they lost to One-and-Done.

Allow player to apply for the Draft but retain their eligibility if they don't hire and agent (an unpaid adviser is OK if they're not a professional agent or affiliated with one). If the player is not drafted or doesn't like their draft position, they could return to college.

This helps college programs by causing players to attend classes in their second semester since they may want to return. It also makes players listen and respond more to their college coaches for the same reason.

It's also unilateral and requires no approval from the NBA and doesn't hurt the NBA. And it helps the student-athletes . The top handful of kids will go to the League and the other ill-advised kids will return with a better more realistic attitude about how much they need to improve their game.

I don't see a downside, do you.

Old School wrote:Allow player to apply for the Draft but retain their eligibility if they don't hire and agent (an unpaid adviser is OK if they're not a professional agent or affiliated with one). If the player is not drafted or doesn't like their draft position, they could return to college.

Can't they return to school if they're undrafted with the current system ?

In this case a drafted player can go back to college.
However, unlike in the NFL, NBA teams retain the draft rights to a player unless he makes himself available and is unwanted by the team drafting him.

So a player who is drafted will get the same salary (for 1st round picks) and the same non-guaranteed contract (for 2nd round picks)

Also the main problem in college ranks in my opinion is that teams with good players arent able to mesh easily because of the one and done players. If these teams stayed away from one and done players they may get better results by virtue of having the teams together for longer. If this happened, one and done players would be stuck away from major programs.

Of course, the fact that major programs still go for the one and dones suggest that they feel its better to have a top 10 recruit for one year than a lesser recruit for more than one - so the paragraph abovce is moot

noido wrote:In this case a drafted player can go back to college.

Not true, if a player opts into the draft and stays in, he cannot return to school and retain his eligibility. What you're thinking about is players who have been out of high school 4 years and are automatically eligible for the draft. Those players if drafted can return o school if they have eligibility remaining. Then the team that drafted them retains their draft rights until the next draft (e.g. Larry Bird)

Wasnt Randolph Morris undrafted and went back in?

Old School wrote:The NBA instituted One-and-Done without input from the NCAA. Here's what the NCAA could do to get back some of the leverage they lost to One-and-Done.

Allow player to apply for the Draft but retain their eligibility if they don't hire and agent (an unpaid adviser is OK if they're not a professional agent or affiliated with one). If the player is not drafted or doesn't like their draft position, they could return to college.

This helps college programs by causing players to attend classes in their second semester since they may want to return. It also makes players listen and respond more to their college coaches for the same reason.

It's also unilateral and requires no approval from the NBA and doesn't hurt the NBA. And it helps the student-athletes . The top handful of kids will go to the League and the other ill-advised kids will return with a better more realistic attitude about how much they need to improve their game.

I don't see a downside, do you.

This is the current rule. Players lose there eligibility because they drop out of classes after the NCAA tourney. Any underclassmen who retains his grades can return to the NCAA as long as he doesnt hire an agent.