The one and done players.

[westsidecat]

A long, but interesting take on the matter.

http://rushthecourt.net/2010/07/22/2010-one-and-dones-was-it-worth-it/#more-22740

Cincinnati – Not Worth It. If you’re a program like Cincinnati trying to claw its way into the elite of the Big East standings for the first time, you expect that a top ten talent like Lance Stephenson will help get you there. Instead, we now know for a fact that Mick Cronin’s team was not markedly different that the one from the year before (a sub-.500 Big East team), and we’re not sure that Born Ready’s year in the Queen City improved the marketability of that program to where other top prospects will want to follow him there. There were always questions about his maturity and inability to make the simple pass rather than the spectacular one, but interestingly, when he told Cincinnati reporters that he was likely to stay in college for an additional year to work on his glaring weaknesses (such as his 22% conversion rate from beyond the arc), UC was going through a period of losing five of its last six regular season games. Ultimately, the Bearcats made it to the NIT and won a game before losing to regional rival Dayton, but it’s a significant difference from what UC fans were hoping for when Stephenson declared his intention to matriculate there last summer. With a fairly young team set to return next year, Mick Cronin, like Barnes above, may be hoping for an addition-by-subtraction scenario as well.

 

[Kingsley Court]

I think that is a great point. If your looking to build a program, you can't build it on one and done players. Only on rare occasions can you do that (UK) and get away with it. I think UC needs to build with 4 year players, and eventually can get the one and done players once the program is re-established.

 

[david aka the TYZ]

I think that is a great point. If your looking to build a program, you can't build it on one and done players. Only on rare occasions can you do that (UK) and get away with it. I think UC needs to build with 4 year players, and eventually can get the one and done players once the program is re-established.

I agree. I made a similar point about a week ago on another thread. One and done players help a really good team become great. They don't help a mediocre to good team become great. You have to have other weapons around. Too easy to just shut that one player down.