Leveling the playing field

[Norm Peterson]

Think of this as well. If there are 200 fewer available spots every season for freshman athletes to play D1 basketball, it means 200 guys that would have played on crappy teams for the Presbyterian Blue Hose are now playing on successful D2 teams.

 

And you've suddenly upgraded the talent for the Presbyterian Blue Hose substantially because they jump up in the pecking order by 200 kids. You've eliminated the bottom 5% of recruits. You've eliminated from D1 basketball all players who were worse than 2 standard deviations below the mean.

 

Talent will be more broadly distributed. The talent level on the Kenpom #200 team won't be substantially worse than the talent level of the Kenpom #100 team. Parity. And all you had to do was give everyone an extra season of playing eligibility, which is like no sacrifice at all.

 

This is a good idea and we should adopt it. Someone call Kevin Warren and get him working on it.

[Huskerpapa]

11 hours ago, Norm Peterson said:

Think of this as well. If there are 200 fewer available spots every season for freshman athletes to play D1 basketball, it means 200 guys that would have played on crappy teams for the Presbyterian Blue Hose are now playing on successful D2 teams.

 

And you've suddenly upgraded the talent for the Presbyterian Blue Hose substantially because they jump up in the pecking order by 200 kids. You've eliminated the bottom 5% of recruits. You've eliminated from D1 basketball all players who were worse than 2 standard deviations below the mean.

 

Talent will be more broadly distributed. The talent level on the Kenpom #200 team won't be substantially worse than the talent level of the Kenpom #100 team. Parity. And all you had to do was give everyone an extra season of playing eligibility, which is like no sacrifice at all.

 

This is a good idea and we should adopt it. Someone call Kevin Warren and get him working on it.

Kevin is busy...he is in Chicago getting interviewed.