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So it's fine for the WNBA, and rookie contracts in the NBA, but would be a total disaster in college? O.K.

I know I’m too old and I’m not speaking for anyone other than me. But if the cost of UConn winning #6 was me having to get a tattoo, I would have rather not won the championship.

The NCAA already doesn’t allow its member institutions to pay its student athletes NIL money. They don’t have to do anything but take action when existing rules are broken. Do I think they will take action? It’s a member run organization. If other schools prefer the current system yes, they...

Whether it was intentional or lunacy, no organization has ever done anything that worked worse than allowing third parties to make NIL payments. A rational system would allow schools to pay players, have a wage scale (even if that requires unionization) and have the schools deal with the...

LOL. Just a “if I vote for this I can raise money from my supporters by putting out a tweet” law. The State of Virginia does not have the right to tell an out of state based national organization what rules it can or can’t impose on its members.

Disagree on the one in Fairfield (and Stamford). Haven’t eaten in New Haven in decades, but I think the offshoots are fine (although not as good as what I remember in New Haven from the 80s and 90s).

I am concerned about the first point. I think it's quite possible that, no matter how much money football schools make, they will be spending it on football. But if they stop competing with other conferences, ....

1. Have to take two out of three if they want to stay in the race to win the conference regular season championship. 2. They certainly don't have 3-4 good starting pitchers. They have 3 or 4 guys who might be good on a particular night, but not a one you can count on. Yes, Quigley has been...

Particularly good post in a thread of good posts. If you want one answer, with the importance of the game and the quality of the opponent being factored in, it was Caron's performance in the loss to Maryland in the Carrier Dome. That doesn't mean DC wasn't great against Illinois. But he...

I have no problem with Hurley's recruiting strategy. I do have a problem with how many here so easily assume that someone who feels the need to take the most money offered is a "bad attitude ball hog ...." Cam Spencer and Hassan Diarra would have been the same player if their family situation...

I think it’s over simplistic to dismiss a young man’s goals or work ethic because they are moved by the offer of more money. Some young people are in situations where more money sooner is extremely important. If it was my son he could afford to be worried about long term earning potential the...

Define "never had." Given that he did make a few cameos as a true freshman.

To win the Big East. Take 2 out of 3 against Georgetown and we're absolutely in the mix to win.

I'm still not convinced this team is as good as any of the UConn teams we've become used to seeing, but the schedule really really eases up after this weekend, and if we can find a way to claw our way to 3 out of the next 4, winning more than two thirds of the remaining games is not going to...

Same as when Karaban was guarding Edey. When you get whacked in the chest by the shoulder of the offensive player, some times you just have to go down and dare the refs not to call it.

Smith, like Doron, came in as a combo guard. Plus the team that Chris Smith joined did not have a talent level nearly equivalent to what the talent level at UConn would thereafter become.

I don’t think that NCAA rules regulate how players get paid by collectives, businesses and fans at all. All a question of what each individual deal is and what the parties negotiate.

You can be jeered at, but right answer. Anyone who thinks Hurley wants his players in the gym shooting tik tok videos instead of practicing 3s and foul shoots doesn’t understand Hurley yet. (And that’s not knocking Solo, who may have shot the video in between hundred sets of foul shots for all...

Will be interesting to see if they can string some good pitching performances together. Five quality games this week, four on the road. If they can get 3 of the next 3, they should be moving up a lot in the RPI. (Having said that, and being glad they’re now stringing some wins together, I’m...

He was also a combo guard and not a point. KO was the pure point at that point.

Stripes is the right answer.

I don’t know how valuable I think that kind of overall player ranking is, but it’s a striking number nonetheless. Now, realize how many of those 35 won’t be playing college ball next year and the thought that Hass won’t be one of the five best players on our team strikes me as truly bizarre...

Not lower than the just completed season. The "baseline" meaning prior seasons. No reason to think it would be below those.

This. 100 per cent. Look, we’re UConn. It would be great for our athletic department as a whole if women’s hoops became as economically important to college sports as men’s basketball and they both elevated each other towards football importance. Let it happen. But if next year’s women...

You don't think Nick Timberlake was also told by Kansas he was going to start? Reality is somewhere in the middle here (as is usually the case). I'm sure transfers -- especially those whom material NIL money is being thrown at -- come with an expectation shared by the coach that the goal and...

It was far from pretty or convincing, but it was 2 out of 3. Two very interesting weekday games this week, and then a huge series in the capital against Georgetown. If we can get 2 out of 3 there, 3 of our 4 remaining series are against teams that aren’t realistically chasing the Big East...

None of Hawkins, Jackson or DC started for Hurley as true frosh. It took Sanogo half a season to become a starter. And Karaban became a starter after the opening game when Johnson got hurt. The only frosh who walked into a starting spot under Hurley on day one was Castle, and he came here as...

We saw that in our recent history. Vance Jackson's father made it hard to build a team because his son ended up wanting to pick his own role rather than implement KO's vision. And Oriakhi's father whining in his ear all of the 11-12 season didn't help (although an unhappy parent is nowhere...

Except that Hamilton lost the ability to shoot while he was here. Couldn’t shoot a lick his sophomore year.

Getting to the Elite Eight takes half of the six wins it takes to win a Natty, and not the difficult half. Seven of eight coaches who make the Elite Eight don't win a Natty. Comparing that to KO is just not a good comparison.

So let's recalibrate. For the first time in forever, we're not playing for an at-large bid. So we're playing with two goals: to win the Big EAst regular season, and failing that to finish in the top 4 and make the tournament. The conference is clearly stronger top to bottom than it was in...

How great those UCLA teams were — they were great — and how easy their path to a title was compared to today are two different discussions. UCLA was dominant in talent and performance during those runs. But, if you have to play four really hard games instead of one or two, the odds that the...

It was easier than that. Only conference champions could make the tourney. Their normal run to the championship might be a Long Beach State or Montana in their first game, Arizona State or BYU in the regional final, Drake or Kansas in the national semi and then wouldn’t get the ACC, SEC or Big...

This. We should try much harder to only hire mediocre coaches who never accomplish anything and avoid this risk in the future. (You really can't make some of this stuff up.)

I‘d say it differently. Hurley’s job is to show him why he should declare for the draft and why it’s just not rational to make the decision to come back. Absolutely. But not let him? He’s a young man with his own family. If for whatever reason you and I deem irrational he wants to come...