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Baylor brings back 2023 Draft pick

Waquoit said:
Cute exchange on reddit. Duke fan says "I can't believe I agree with Dan Hurley." UNC fan says, "I can't believe I agree with a Dukie" Dan Hurley, uniting people during the Holiday Season!
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Said it before and I’ll say it again, if you told me 15 years ago our staff would include a Hurley, Mike Nardi, and Bill Murray’s kid I would’ve thought we had gone D3 or something.
 
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I still don't get why remaining in a draft isn't in and of itself sufficient to end intercollegiate eligibility.

It had been an assumption on my part, but if a Euro player doesn't need to declare for a draft in advance of being drafted, they need to add this as part of the requirements.
 
JVN said:
www.espn.com

Baylor defends signing ex-NBA pick amid criticism

Baylor coach Scott Drew defended his signing of former NBA draft pick James Nnaji, saying he's merely adapting to the current climate of college basketball.
www.espn.com www.espn.com
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Tough to blame Drew for doing it since NCAA allowed it. A gentlemen’s agreement among coaches to not do it is a ridiculous desire by Izzo in a sport where the most successful programs have often lived outside the actual rules.

The NCAA needs to get serious about formalizing rules to save itself.
 
BGesus4 said:
Tough to blame Drew for doing it since NCAA allowed it. A gentlemen’s agreement among coaches to not do it is a ridiculous desire by Izzo in a sport where the most successful programs have often lived outside the actual rules.

The NCAA needs to get serious about formalizing rules to save itself.
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Every football centric school seems to have one of these very rich supporters. Not sure his ideas will ever work but at least most people seem to agree that the college athletic system is broken.

Campbell says he has commissioned research that shows that if colleges could band together, their TV rights would be worth roughly $7 billion -- almost double what they make in total now. It's a change that would direct a larger share of revenue to schools such as Texas Tech, making the Red Raiders less dependent on billionaire alums to help them compete.

The current leaders of college sports view Campbell's proposal as a naive solution to a complex, tangled problem. SEC commissioner Greg Sankey told The Associated Press in October that Campbell has a "fundamental misunderstanding of the realities of college athletics." It could be 10 years or more before current deals expire and open the door for a big group contract. And that's assuming all conferences would want to join forces. Commissioners and other media industry experts also say Campbell's $7 billion projections are optimistic, perhaps wildly so.

 
BGesus4 said:
A gentlemen’s agreement among coaches to not do it is a ridiculous desire by Izzo in a sport where the most successful programs have often lived outside the actual rules.
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A gentleman's agreement? Among coaches like Pitino, Calipari, etc al. In a sport with schools like Kentucky & Louisville.

Asking for world peace would be a more reasonable request.
 
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This just opens the door for teams to recruit goon players, hey the ncaa won't do anything about we will do it John Chaney style on the court. Wouldn't root for that to happen but you are welcoming that possibility.
 
A lot of people are all fired up over this. But on the UConn women's team, Blanca Quinones, who is only 18 or 19, played professional basketball for many years in an Italian league. But she's a freshman at UConn. There was zero hysteria over this on the woman's side, at least zero that I saw.

If they don't earn any $$ as pros, why not allow them to come back? How is that harming the game? With NIL etc. MCBB (and WCBB) are already semi pro leagues with many college players (on the women's side) making a lot more than they will in the pros.
 
A few thoughts on how to reverse this screwed up direction before its too late:

1. No mid season transfers allowed, no exceptions.

2. Any player who wants to transfer to a different school for the following year must wait until the final NCAA tournament game has been played. Any player is only allowed 1 transfer per college career.

3. Any player who wishes to return to college from the G league or other professional league (providing he has college eligibility left) cannot make more in college than he was paid in the pros.

4. There needs to be a hard team salary cap initiated and tenaciously monitored.

5. Any school violating these new rules would be heavily sanctioned, suspended for 3 years from the NCAA tournament and not share in any revenue sharing.

The whole situation has turned into a s*show due to players now being considered school employees. I’m not an expert on labor laws but some of my suggestions could be challenged in court I suppose.
 
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"You know, we play in front of big crowds. We travel well. I mean, I could see what's appealing for G League players to want to return to college, but I just don't want to lose our donors. You lose your fans, you lose your current students, what I think has been a great connection for those are the people that drive our sport too. Those are the people that buy tickets, support the program, make it possible for us to function the way that we do, if we lose them, you know, like if they just think this is just some mercenary thing, if education just goes completely out the window here, like that. We're just basically, we're like, college basketball is the G League, and I just don't know that ruining college basketball is the right direction."


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UConn coach Dan Hurley weighs in on ex-NBA Draft pick joining Baylor: 'We need leadership'​

 
Waquoit said:
What does Charlie Baker do with his time?
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How is he still NCAA President? The health of college sports has been in decline since he’s been in charge & it looks like he’s done nothing to try to stop it. But a serious correction is desperately needed soon. To me, Congress needs to legislate unambiguous anti-trust exemptions to allow the NCAA to set reasonable rules for eligibility and govern in a way that recognizes that it’s supposed to be competition among college students.
 
Kowalski said:
How is he still NCAA President? The health of college sports has been in decline since he’s been in charge & it looks like he’s done nothing to try to stop it. But a serious correction is desperately needed soon. To me, Congress needs to legislate unambiguous anti-trust exemptions to allow the NCAA to set reasonable rules for eligibility and govern in a way that recognizes that it’s supposed to be competition among college students.
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Where is this guy? When does he even show his face? You'd think you'd hear something from the guy when key topics like this show up.
 
Charlie Baker isn't the president of college basketball. He's the President of the NCAA. There are 3 divisions, 24 sports, 1,100+ schools, 20,000 teams, 500,000+ athletes in the NCAA. He's not going to react to every college basketball news story out there.
 
auror said:
Charlie Baker isn't the president of college basketball. He's the President of the NCAA. There are 3 divisions, 24 sports, 1,100+ schools, 20,000 teams, 500,000+ athletes in the NCAA. He's not going to react to every college basketball news story out there.
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He’s not going to react to the biggest story?
 
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auror said:
Charlie Baker isn't the president of college basketball. He's the President of the NCAA. There are 3 divisions, 24 sports, 1,100+ schools, 20,000 teams, 500,000+ athletes in the NCAA. He's not going to react to every college basketball news story out there.
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Well then I guess Hurley is right. College basketball needs its own commissioner.
 
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