Such a great guy is that Pitino.
I'm close with a lot of Iona fans and that whole fan base despises him.
He used the kid to get some early commitments and now he’s throwing him away. It’s a terrible look. I wonder if the kid has the right to just say screw it and keep his scholarship. Make Pitino figure it out
How did they feel about him before he left for SJ
What happens in this scenario since the portal is closed? Is the kid effectively banned from college basketball for a year?
Don't programs have to renew or give the players a scholarship for the coming season by some date? I thought it was some time in June. Scholarships are renewed every year. So if the program already agreed to the scholarship for the coming season then they can't just kick the kid to the curb.
That can be explained by the simple fact that Rick Pitino has been, is, and will be, a horrible person
Looks like it's July 1st of the year the scholarship expires
If what Hey Adrien says is about to become true, and Hey Adrien is almost always on point so I have no reason to believe otherwise, this is really a scum bag move. What makes it worse for the Iona player that transferred is that this particular player that gets dropped won't be a highly touted player like a Daniss Jenkins, but rather a player that didn't get much playing time at Iona so he won't have much time and game tape to entice other D-1 schools to recruit him-in fact he will be left scrambling in a panic. I am thinking it's going to be Sadiku Ayo. Show Pitino loyalty and get burned is the hard lesson to be learned.
Ding ding ding. I’ve heard nobody is being kicked anywhere. In addition, Pitino is loved by his former players.
Can "walk ons" get enough NIL money to cover their scholarship cost? Maybe Pitino will convert someone to walk on status.
I feel like there's some rule preventing, or at least complicating, this. Similar when Drummond ended up as a "preferred(?)" walkon. Could be a non-issue since NIL basically blew up everything
I'm not sure how NIL plays in, could probably just pay him under (or over) the table money. But a recruited athlete can't get any financial aid as a walk on which is what came up in the Drummond and Akok recruitments
Before anyone starts praising slick Rick's benevolence (including St John's fans enjoying our hospitality) look up what happened to Rodrick Rhodes when Ricky was coaching Kentucky.
A but different scenario. Nobody gonna redshirt, and I believe Pitino had done that with not just Rhodes but a few others as well.
I recall that academic scholarships count against the scholarship limit. I would think NIL money as a substitute scholarship could be treated similarly to prevent teams going over the limit with NIL in lieu of a scholarship.
Baffles me that Nahiem left UConn for the same role he will play at St Johns. A veteran guard/leader off the bench. I wish him the best tho.
NIL money legally doesn't come from the school and there's no real NCAA rules surrounding it. It can very well be used to skirt scholarship limits
Very possible.
