Why will this hurt women and minorities? That doesn't make sense to me.
This is the real problem. The professional leagues' competitive balance rules as well as revenue sharing developed over many years, but the floodgates opened on college sports all at once. Things will have to change but it's going to take time. The current system is obviously not sustainable for the reasons that you clearly recognize.
Non-competes are becoming much more restricted if not illegal in many states (bizarrely, they have been illegal in Oklahoma for quite a while, which seems like a very non Oklahoma thing). The general trend is to make it easier for workers to move around and harder for employers to stop them. Maybe that's part of the reason that schools are so insistent that players are not employees.
I'm betting everybody is happy. Kentucky, Arkansas, & Calipari. Please let Kentucky steal Dan Hurley, and let both schools flounder for the next few years.
I mean….that and the fact that he completely fell out of the rotation in the favor of a McWright….
I think of SLU as being a lateral move from Indiana State but maybe the money is more.
It's not supposed to be a committee view of conferences. It is supposed to be an individual school against another one. They make that point every year. Now I agree that it is not followed and some of the AD's on the committee are old football players or fans who don't know a pick and roll from a tootsie roll.
Supposed to be and what actually happened are two different things… that’s why we see middling B1G teams get in with a losing conference record. They can say all day long that they don’t consider certain things like that, but we all know they absolutely do.
Our players often say they came here at least in part because they could play in the American. It plays in to a certain extent.
He went for the money, nothing else and the coaching he will be getting at Memphis is INFINITELY worse. Penny is an AAU coach, nothing more.
Yep... Just roll it out and go score the ball.
Pretty much what the NBA is now game wise. No were close to the game in pre 90s, and not the game I grew up playing.
I watched way more of the women's tournament than I did the men's and I didn't watch a single second of the men's Final Four. And I can't stand the NBA any more with the rigged teams and collusion between players and the fake a$$ "salary cap" and the rigged teams aren't even that good to be honest. Best teams are Boston where all but a couple of the key players are Boston draft picks and developed in Boston (Porzingis, Jrue Holiday, and Horford were drafted somewhere else), the Knicks who have really built the right way. The 2 LA teams that have colluded and conspired to build super teams are actually pretty awful. Oh, and OKC where they've built with their draft and young players. I know SGA isn't an original OKC pick but they've developed him into the superstar he is vs the player they traded away and he was sort of the throw in to make the deal happen.
The NBA is the league that seems to have figured it out the best. The top 3 teams in the west and 4 of the top 6 are smaller market teams. In the east, 3 of the top 6 are smaller market (maybe 4, I don't know how big a market Orlando is).
Interestingly enough, because Zach Edey is Canadian and needed a student visa to be in the US, he is not allowed to make any money while in the country. He can only make NIL $ from Canadian companies and doing work in Canada. So while you say Caitlin Clark in 100 State Farm commercials, Edey wouldn't be able to do that unless he flew to Canada to do the work and then back to West Lafayette.
I feel like there must be a typo here since it otherwise is completely nonsensical.
What, that I am a hockey purist and never particularly enjoyed the goon fights to put on a show?
Isn't that kind of like going to a strip club because you're a dancing purist?
Nah. I'm not saying fights in hockey shouldn't happen...I just am not a fan of the ones that are staged and scripted sort of like WWE. The two goons are on the ice, they look at each other and literally ask "we gonna do this now?" and the second the puck gets dropped, their gloves are on the ice. Fights that are organic between star players because something happened in the action are way better. Ray Bourque and Mats Sundin, 2 of the games bigger stars back in the day, threw down back in the ay mostly because Sundin was being checked to death by Bourque when Sundin was trying to camp out in front of his goalie. Epic fight too. Derian Hatcher (who was sort of a goon) going after Mark Messier (not a goon but a cheap shot player even as a star) after Messier threw an elbow that knocked Mike Modano out. I'm OK with things like that, sort of like the occasional bench clearing brawl in baseball. I still contend that the moment Jason Varitek told Alex Rodriguez to STFU and run to first after getting plunked by a Sox pitcher and then proceeding to beat the hell out of him was the moment the Red Sox changed their fortunes in 2004 on their way to winning the World Series.
Presti has done fairly well with the draft. I fear that OKC won't offer max extensions to the start players, or at least not all of them, thus allowing them to walk before they reach their full potential as a team.
Too long of a season.
