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We're fast approaching the time ... by CJC
where watching college basketball will be like watching pick-up games at the YMCA.
I don't begrudge young people the right to pursue their dreams and their intended profession.
But I have the right to not be interested in "following" teams and a sport where the cast of characters changes radically from one season to the next.
To me, there is a lot less investment and interest when the starting fives for Kentucky and Kansas and Duke and North Carolina, etc., etc., turn over nearly completely every season. And that trend is rapidly growing.
Again, I don't begrudge the kids. But I don't have to like it, or be bothered to pay attention to it.