After the NBA changed its age requirement for draftees to 19 years old in 2006, John Calipari became perhaps the biggest proponent of the one-and-done era, a polarizing chapter in college basketball in which players leap to the pros after just one season.
With the growth of the transfer portal in recent years, Calipari said a similar trend is happening again. «It is one-and-done, too,» Calipari, appearing on Tuesday's SportsCenter, said of the portal. «Everybody was mad about a young player coming in and only staying one year.
Well, now we're doing it with older players. It's the same as one-and-done.» Calipari said hundreds of players who entered the transfer portal this year were left without scholarships.
He also said head coaches are holding onto extra scholarships just in case a transfer might be available, which means «300-500» high school players won't get scholarships, either.