A lot of smoke about Smith (Purdue) entering the portal
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Is it too late to get a handle on NIL? Something that once would get a school in major trouble has blown completely up. These kids are no longer college students playing for a scholarship, they are hired professional athletes playing for a university. Many are making more than all of the NBA players made not that long ago. I truly believe NIL will ruin college athletics as we know it.
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I believe there is a hearing on April 7th that is going to corral some of this. I don't know all the details of it, but these kids are trying to get deals done before the 7th, which makes sense.
The only way forward is for college teams to function like semi-professional club teams do in Europe. Players need to have contracts and some sort of cba to ensure there is some consistency from year to year. I couldn't imagine trying to put together a team with the uncertainty in the current era.
I can tell you boys aren't from the south because you didn't mention Community coffee.
The only way to do that is to make players employees of the universities and the administrators of those universities absolutely do not want to do that.
You outdid yourself with this one. Goodness lol
I don't I buy Smith leaving Purdue, maybe driving up the price they have to pay.
Probably not for the amounts they command, but they could fall under a work/study program of some sort.
If true, it still helps. 1.) You force another program to spend big money so they can’t outbid you on other prospects. 2.) You get to see what the NIL budgets for rival schools are more accurately. Enjoy the process, even the “losses” have a little bit of “win” to them. It’s a complicated game with a lot of moving parts.
It's going to seek it's own level. It's out of control right now. The NCAA is afraid to act. There's some upcoming court cases that are going to be major in the NIL arena. I believe the first one is next Monday? Might be wrong on the date. But it's soon.
But college athletics has been ruined for decades. It's just there for more to see now. They aren't making anywhere near NBA money though. Not even a drop in the bucket. There's rumors that Cooper Flagg could command up to $5 mil to stay another year at Duke. But even his coach says he would be crazy to return.
There's a lot of handwringing over nothing. No one is being forced to pay NIL monies. And UK will not lose a player over money.
BYU 2 studs and a decent team come back.
UK 1 role player, and okay team coming back so your point is?
The report from TOS was Purdue will have to back up Brinks truck to keep him from entering the portal
The #1 pick earns 10.47 million in the first year so he would be an idiot to stay at Duke for 5 million.
Just so you know, report that Braden almost certainly isn’t leaving Purdue. We can probably put that one to rest at this point. On to the next
Who put it out? Wouldn’t surprise me like I’ve said many times I never believed the rumor and even if he did hit the portal it’s a long battle to Lexington.
Idk. But report that he is almost certainly not portaling. It was reported ahead of time that Purdue would have to open the bank to keep him, so two and two
He posted his basketball camp for mid-April in West Laffayette. He's staying. There's been chatter from basically all the KY insiders and the Trilly discord for weeks. The smoke was there. I definitely believe Kentucky was doing their best legal channel reaching out to let him know we would pay him a crap ton.
The hard part on this--I feel like Donovan Dent stings so much more now.
The hard part on this--I feel like Donovan Dent stings so much more now.
Mid April means nothing, he could easily get paid for that and bolt in the fall though. I believe he stays but that wouldn’t have any effect IMO.
I don't think that is necessarily the case. Teams would need to create separate corporate structures for each team and then license the naming rights from the schools, leagues, and NCAA. Athletes would then be able to unionize, have a cba, and be paid as professionals.
At this point, the concept of amateurism in sports is dead outside of D3 and NAIA. College sports are in an awkward transition period, and hopefully they can figure out a long term solution.
Of the final four teams 3 having transfer players playing the lead guard position. Those 3 guys Uzan (45), Clayton (69) and Jones (41) weren't what most would classify as elite guards or they wouldn't have been ranked that low. So to me it just approves it's about fit and who surrounds them.
*Rankings based on 24/7 portal rankings.
*Rankings based on 24/7 portal rankings.
Sounds about right. My opinion, there was some leveraging going on with his agent to ensure a big payday for his last season. But I believe there was some legitimacy to the rumors of possibility, only it was never going to actually materialize.
