Even before Mayo scandal, one-and-done rule was bad

Rush the Court found this 5/14/2008 on msn.foxsports.com [flag]

The O.J. Mayo scandal has cast new doubts on the NBA's one-and-done rule. But Ian O'Connor says it's never made any sense. [link]

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More Mayo 1-and-Done Nonsense…
Published 5/14/2008 by rtmsf at Rush the Court
We keep reading all of these arguments in light of the OJ Mayo controversy about how the 1-and-done rule is a joke, about how it punishes the athletes, about how it makes unwitting (or is it witting?) accomplices of the schools in the whole charade, about how peace and prosperity and all things good and holy are tied into the elimination of this silly rule… and we stop and wonder. ...

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