Villanova's Wright: College Hoops One-And-Done Model Needs To Go

Villanova men’s basketball coach Jay Wright today delivered a sharp rebuke of the sport’s one-and-done system for NBA-bound players. During an on-stage interview at the Learfield Intercollegiate Athletic Forum in N.Y., he called for a model more closely resembling baseball, where players enter the pro ranks either right after high school, after three years of college or when they reach 21 years of age. “There have to be student-athletes who want to be in college and want to be educated,” Wright said. “The ones that don’t, don’t put them in our system and don’t force them into our system. There’s so much out there now about student-athlete rights, and they should have rights. The problem is that there are athletes who don’t want to be students. To get a guy to a professional sport in seven months, that’s not why we’re here.”