With everything going on in the sports world and especially recruiting, you might have missed what is a huge story in the college basketball world.
The NCAA announced that next year the deadline for college players to withdraw from the draft would be moved from mid-June to May 8th.
I consider the NBA draft process to be a two part guessing game for coaches and fans. First players have until April 29th to declare if they will test the waters/hire an agent. And then, which is now May 8th, to withdraw or stay in. I still feel they could stand to move the declare deadline up a week or two, but at least they are going in the right direction. For an organization that has continued to be the NBA’s whipping boy, it seems they are finally taking these matters into their own hands. These kids know well in advance what they are going to do, and for the most part waiting just kills the team for next year.
The next step would be a change in how long recruiting can go into the summer, but who knows how long before that is changed.