Ben Simmons' lone year in college was a colossal waste of everyone's time Posted Mar 22, 2016 Ben Simmons surprised exactly no one when he announced on Monday that he would forego his final three years of college at LSU and enter the NBA Draft. The Simmons experiment in Baton Rouge is over, and taking a look back at the entire thing, it leads me to ask: What exactly was accomplished here? It’s hard for me to believe that Simmons’ game was developed all that much in his one year at college. (USA Today)