[Wildcat_blue]

I understand and totally respect your opinion WildcatBlue, but I don't agree with it.  Well, not ALL of it.

If the game has never been better, why is it dying?  I know I'm an old fashioned thinker, but when we commercialized basketball (and this includes a lot of ideas recently implemented), I think we cheapened it  and destined a large part of it to be destroyed.  Because some or all of the people involved could cash in on the $$, a lot of schools are doing these things as well.

I don't see this part as an improvement.

I agree completely with you, my point is just based off pure talent from an athlete standpoint and basketball.  We absolutely are destroying the game with $$