Top 5 Reasons College Football Makes College Basketball Look Like a Joke

Feb 10, 2015; Baton Rouge, LA, USA; Kentucky Wildcats head coach John Calipari against the LSU Tigers during the first half of a game at the Pete Maravich Assembly Center. Mandatory Credit: Derick E. Hingle-USA TODAY Sports

4. The Talent Disparity Between College Basketball and the NBA is Worse than College Football and the NFL

Okay, so this one is not as much the fault of college basketball, but the fault of the NBA. Allowing one-and-dones has been a huge factor in ruining the sport because coaches like John Calipari can stock up on those players.

The result is that players you’re watching are either never going to be good enough to play at the NBA level or will use Kentucky as a pit-stop for the NBA. There is no development of talent by coaches anymore, and we are stuck with superstars in college who might shoot 50 percent from the Free Throw line or be able to play power forward at 6’4″.

If the NCAA were to fight tooth and nail to convince the NBA to at least have a two-year rule in place, the sport would be so much better. But the one-and-done rule has created a huge base of college superstars that fail at the next level and NBA superstars who never mattered in college because they did not care.

With plenty of exceptions, you can at least look at college football players overall and get a pretty good read over who will make it at the next level. It’s a lot easier to tell that than it is college basketball. And a player who has stayed for three years in college football hasn’t stayed for three years because he couldn’t play at the next level.

A senior in college football is not a loser for not yet being in the NFL either, the way a senior in college basketball is for not yet being in the NBA.

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