04/27: NBA draft decisions, teams still waiting on edge; thoughts on college hoops media

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🗓️ 27 April 2017

⏱️ 48 minutes

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The 137 college underclassmen who declared for the NBA Draft are not stupid or misguided or delusional or whatever other negative adjective you might've heard. They're merely taking advantage of a system in place that presents little to no downside to them doing what they're doing. Matt Norlander and Gary Parrish talked about it at the top of this episode. They also also discussed the winners and losers of the early entry deadline. And UNLV's recruiting class. They close with thoughts on their friends who were laid off this week at ESPN. The entire network took a big hit -- but especially college basketball. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	It's scary, Parrish.
0:14.2	It's Thursday, April 27th.
0:15.9	Welcome back to the Ion College basketball podcast.
0:18.1	I got Matt Norlander here with me.
0:20.2	Not a lot of significant things have happened in the sport since we last spoke, but somehow
0:25.2	have among them, UNLV putting together a really nice recruiting class for 2017.
0:30.7	Norlander wrote about that earlier today.
0:32.9	We'll discuss it later in this podcast, but I wanted to start with the NBA announcing
0:37.3	the official list of college players who have declared early for the 2017 NBA draft.
0:42.7	There are 137 names on it.
0:45.2	Some of them, you know, some of them you don't.
0:47.4	It's a record number, which of course led to some being outraged and shocked and all
0:51.9	these other things, that these quote, stupid kids making these quote, stupid decisions.
0:58.5	And with that opinion, I could not disagree more.
1:01.4	I explained it in a column.
1:03.0	I'll expand momentarily.
1:04.6	But first, I wanted to get your thoughts on it, Norlander.
1:07.7	What do you make of 137 under classmen in college declaring early for the NBA draft?
1:14.3	I make for it that it's tremendous.
1:19.4	I think we are getting to a point here where as media members, we have evolved on this.
1:29.3	And I think a lot of fans have evolved on it.
1:31.1	Some haven't.
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