NCAA announces it is implementing several recommendations

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Oh boy, now the agents will really be fawning over the good basketball players.
 

ESPN: Sources: NCAA's new proposed rules blindside execs from NBA, USA Basketball

Top officials with the NBA and USA Basketball were blindsided with timing and changes in the NCAA's announcement of future rules surrounding pro basketball prospects, sources told ESPN.

The NCAA launched a commission and set of sub-committees to address the fallout of the FBI investigation into the college basketball industry, resulting in several policy shifts -- including the assigning of responsibility to USA Basketball for something the organization had already told the NCAA it wanted no part: bearing responsibility for selecting elite senior high school prospects who'll be allowed to sign with registered agents.

USA Basketball doesn't have the infrastructure, nor interest in accepting the role of evaluating the nation's top prospects for a yet-to-be-determined number of players who'll annually be allowed to sign with agents at the end of their junior years, sources told ESPN.

USA Basketball prefers that the NBA make those decisions, sources said. The NBA already oversees the invitation process to the Chicago pre-draft combine and Portsmouth Invitational camps every spring. The NBA will be immersed in scouting the high school ranks once those players have an earlier target date of entering the NBA draft, and if the NCAA wants to allow a select number of high school players the opportunity to sign with agents, the belief is that NBA front offices would be most informed to cull a list.

The NBA, USA Basketball and NCAA did meet and discuss these prospective changes, but the NBA and USA Basketball never believed they had come to a consensus with the NCAA on how they would move forward together on the issues, sources said. And then, the announcement of a litany of changes came Wednesday.

"We will review the NCAA's planned reforms and continue to assess, along with our Players' Association, the potential for any related NBA rules changes," NBA spokesman Tim Frank said.

Several NBA officials were surprised over the presumptive and premature nature of the NCAA's rules changes, which assumed that the NBA and NBPA will abandon the one-and-done college rule and allow high school players into the NBA draft. While that appears to be the direction the league and union are headed, discussions are centered on the 2022 NBA draft as the earliest.

http://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/...rules-blindsides-nba-usa-basketball-officials

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Would love to know the real, behind-the-scenes discussion on this.

NCAA probably felt backed into a corner, and urgently needing to release "something" before the start of school, because of the pressures from FBI investigation, the previously settled O'Bannon lawsuit, and the upcoming Kessler lawsuit which is seeking to end the NCAA's amateurism model altogether.

Perhaps they said "guys, sorry but we have to put something out, and if you two don't agree, we're just going to say X and Y, and force your hand."
 






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