Brandon Jennings to Europe: The Start of an NCAA Trend?

This would allow high school players to mature, grow, and improve upon their natural talent while facing talent that will more accurately test them than the high school ranks.  The nay sayers of this policy will cite the same argument that tennis and golf allow players to enter early, so why doesn't basketball? 

Additionally, some fear this would open Pandora's Box to the European leagues.  One can speculate that a three year contract might reach seven figures for a player overseas, particularly one of the stature of a Greg Oden or a Michael Beasley. 

To protect the quality and tradition of NCAA basketball, the NBA might hesitate to make such a move.   

The NBA faces a decision that directly affects the quality of its product going forward.  The NBA draft is becoming increasingly more of a year round process, and players are targeting their careers at an unfathomably young age. 

Teenagers are committing to colleges prior to their sophomore year in high school and preparing to play only one year at a major university, all in the hopes of becoming the next franchise piece in the NBA. 

The bottom line is that it is unlikely that there will ever be unison and total agreement on the rules for declaring for the NBA draft.  One thing is clear though: the NBA must decide upon a policy that it fully supports and endorses before this debate will ever end. 

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