NBA Draft

With the NCAA Tournament coming to its final weekend of madness, players are beginning to declare for the NBA draft or will be making their decisions soon enough.  The big names to declare so far are Kentucky's Michael Kidd-Gilchrist and Duke's Austin Rivers.  Two players with loads of potential that aren't ready for NBA competition.  I've always felt that the one and done rule the NBA implemented is a joke.  They did it only to shut the college basketball world up because of all the players who leaped from high school to the NBA and fell off the face of the earth.  Two years of college would be better and would force players to do their school work for at least one full year.  However, three years is most appropriate because it still allows players to declare early and gets them close enough to graduating that they're likely to finish school during the NBA off-season or sometime shorty after entering the league.  This would not only benefit player education, but would also assist in developing players on the court and ready them for the physically demanding NBA playing level.  Sure there are the occasional freaks like Lebron James that can make the leap from high school no problem, but the overall and best scenario for the vast majority of players would be to allow them three years of academic focus before basketball and then give them the final year to decide on making the leap.  Sure, some players might hurt their draft stock, but once they've joined the NBA and are playing better then they would've if they'd declared out of high school or nowadays after one year of college, their long-term success will make up for any loss of draft stock or money.