No more testing the NBA Draft's waters

The NCAA has officially done away with the testing the waters process in the NBA Draft.

The NCAA's board director's had the opportunity to overturn proposal 2010-24, a measure approved by the NCAA's legislative council that will move the deadline for declaring for the draft to the day before the spring signing period.

This is, simply put, utter horse shit.

The rule is solely designed to protect the needs of college basketball coaches. These coaches don't want the uncertainty of a prospect with his name in the NBA Draft pool and don't want the headache of having to help that prospect determine his standing on NBA Draft boards.

So what do they do?

Eliminate the process that allows these players to evaluate whether they are ready for the NBA; whether they should give up their remaining eligibility for a chance to pursue a professional career. If you're team makes it to the Final Four, you will have a grand total of seven days to make the most important decision of your life.

And you will be forced to make a relatively uninformed decision.

Like I said, a horse shit decision pushed through by a group of self-serving coaches looking out for themselves.

If you can't tell, this decision pisses me off, so I'm done ranting about this for now before I say something dumb. I wrote extensively on the topic here, here, and here.