Nice read on your take on the mid-majors, but I must respectively disagree with you on this one, bud.There is more parity than ever in college basketball. Look at how long it's been since UK won a title and look at how long it took for Duke to win another title. Here's why...
The one and done rule
Thanks to the "one and done" rule, players are no longer allowed to jump straight to the NBA after high school. This makes for greater parity in the game. Since players must go to college for a year, their choice of school can be totally different than if they were going to college and planned on staying for 3-4 years.
Derrick Favors to Georgia Tech, OJ Mayo to USC, Michael Beasley to Kansas St...these are all recent moves that never get made if the one and done rule didn't exist.
Whether you think the rule is a good idea or not, there's no denying that it's spreading the talent out to more teams. Mid-major coaches have to be quick to jump on other teams' "leftovers", like Butler did with Lexington's own Shelvin Mack.
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