basketball420 wrote:Also let me add this the CIS is not as bad as some of you guys make it out to be..I played in the CIS and played College in the Stataes and have played lots of NCAA schools as well...the biggest difference is size and better players coming off the bench...D1 schools have studs that were all state on the bench where most CIS teams have hard working Johnny who was from Port Hope and was pretty good lol
BUT the top 5 are not nearly as far off as you think.
Carleton can play with any NCAA team outside of the top 20...and gave Louisville a scare last year losing at the buzzer.
If this guy is averaging almsot 30 in CIS he is no scrub I don't care who says he is...and guys that run off about guys sucking..why isn't there articles about you? Where are you playing? It's jealousy..I hate that ****
i can only speak for myself, but the point that i was making was that the main discrepancy between the CIS and NCAA is that of exposure, and not necessarily talent. you make a good point the high variation in D1 schools. the basketball team at my D1 school probably can't beat many of their D3 counterparts, and certainly couldn't hold their own against Carleton and several other schools within the CIAU.
having said that, a player is likely to get scouted 20 or 30 more times playing for a mid-tier D1 school, or even at a crappy D1 school like mine (when they play top D1 teams) than he would as a player for Ryerson. for that reason alone, his chances of being noticed by an NBA team is probably significantly higher with a D1 team than a CIS team, and consequently, probably justifies making the transfer down south (provided that other variables such as adequate playing time, natural rate of development, no injuries, etc. are all held constant)
