Quote Originally Posted by darkchrono
that is why I prefer college football over college basketball. Players stick around longer. If a player leaves early it will generally only be after his junior year. And you will usually only get a handful of players or so a decade who leaves after their sophomore year.

In basketball you have players leaving after their freshman and sophomore years all the time.
On the outside, it seems like players only stay for 1 or 2 years. But actually if you took 20 players from around the nation...only 1 or 2 of them jump early. It's the really talented players that leave college early.

In college football, they're pretty much forced to stay 3 years...a luxury college b-ball doesn't have. The only sophmores that leave football are those who are 20 years old. The NFL won't let anyone in their draft unless they've played 3 years of college football or they're 20 years old. The only requirement for all the other 3 major sports is that you just have to graduate high school.