What Happens to College Basketball?

The talk going around is that the NBA may soon allow 18 year old guys to join the ranks. Questions loom with this right? Such as: How would this effect the NBA, the players, and college basketball?
Three questions and I am sure there could be more.

With more and more kids leaving after their freshmen years of college basketball I wonder about this. This is 2018 not 1995 or even 2000 when the like of Jermaine O'Neil, Kevin Garnett, Kobe Bryant, and Lebron James came into the league, and many more that have made it and or busted out. Whether anyone is ready to join the professional ranks of any sport or business straight out of college remains to be seen. Considering a small margin are indeed ready to go right out of the gate and do well is a feet unto itself, whereas the higher numbers rest within it will take a year or two or more, and or never for a player to have "made it."

The kids that leave after their freshman years are leaving for a multitude of reasons. Family life, maybe the wrong person telling them, or they just know. I've wrestled with this leaving for a long while on whether it is good or bad, but I think it is more or less indifferent. It is more gray than black and white. I remember when Kevin Garnett jumped from Farragut High School and was going to the NBA. You just knew he was good. Much in the vain of Lebron or Kobe, and some others. I don't sit on the bench with the guys who rail on and on about how these kids should stay in school. I look at it more like a basketball maturity. Within that same breath however, length of stay or age does not matter. There are plenty of guys that went all four years of college who are just, alright. Greatness is determined by how hard you work not how long you stay in college. How fast you mature as a 16, 17, and 18 year old young person. Greatness doesn't care about the college that you went to, it is determined by you.

The college game will go on no matter what. The business of college basketball is on the higher end of millions. With March Madness raking in the brunt of that cash. College basketball will go on, and being that the greats probably will not develop more in college the game will still be competitive. As it continues to do so today. The hope would be that players on the college level continue to grow as young men first and basketball players second. Because as every superhero knows "with great powers come great responsibility."