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There's been talk about how the new NCAA rule against accepting athletes who attend prep schools for a year to get their grades and scores up to snuff will be a boon to the Junior Colleges. Coaches don't know if junior college basketball will return to the level of 15 years ago, but they expect more talent to be spread across the country and for it to have added relevance on the national recruiting scene.What hasn't been mentioned is how much the NBA will hate this. The NBA, when they stopped direct jumps from high school to to the pros, was acting to improve their product. An additional benefit was no longer needing to scout high school kids. A benefit in terms of cost and spreading their scouts too thin domestically. They could finally focus most of their US scouting on the kids playing D-1 college ball. They could see the kids playing against higher competition and with better coaching.
With the expected influx of talent that will have to go to junior colleges, NBA scouts will once again have to spread further and thinner to watch kids. Kids who after one or two years at junior college may opt for the draft rather than add another year or possibly two at a traditional college. This on top of the ever growing international scouting.
This is not to insult junior colleges and their coaches, but the overall level of talent and coaching is not the same as power conferences in Division I. Scouting players in the JUCO level will not be as bad as scouting high schoolers, but there will be big questions about the competition and potential.
Kids with talent but without the grades and forced to wait to go pro may have done a year at prep school and then one year at college before being able to declare for the draft. Now they will go to a junior college for a year and jump. They will have that year gap between high school and turning pro.
Not that the NCAA should really be concerned with what aggravates the NBA (though, I don't recall any complaints from the NCAA offices about the NBA rule requiring a year after high school for eligibility meant sending kids who would have gone to the NBA to college for only a year -- and arguably making a mockery of college sports).
It's only worth noting that the NBA will want to help kill this rule. Prep schools are obviously less than pleased. Along with the National Association of Basketball Coaches (NABC) who are furiously trying to get some sort of amendment to the new rule. This rule in its present state may not last too long.
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