re: We really need Odo

You don't know what you are talking about.

You are still mixing the club system with our own. Where here, you graduate from amateur to pro, over there you are always in the club system -- even as a kid -- so it's tricky and somewhat meaningless to try to decipher if a low-level club team is what we would be the equivalent of what we would consider pro.

There are tons of small, community-based clubs in Europe. They are pro in the same way a crappy local indoor football team is pro.

I mean, Spain has 48 million people, roughly the population of Californa and Oregon, and it has well over a hundred basketball clubs, all of which have adult teams that are at, some level, pro.

So saying our colleges can beat their pros is meaningless and deceiving. We can probably send NAIA teams over there who can find low-end club teams they can kill.

But pros as we think of them? Those high-end clubs that attract the best players over there?

Our college teams would struggle with those teams.