Agree with that, my point was more that it wouldn’t make much sense for an NIL collective/university to expose themself to this very common situation of a player decommiting, and then having them walk off with a chunk of their NIL funds.
The kind of money we’re talking about is a rounding error on Walmart’s P&L.
They haven't been bad. I mean their coach just got poached.
Their basketball has objectively been excellent.
The "Walmart money" would be coming from Sam Walton's heirs.
I assume you weren’t a fan of Ryan Boatright in that case. Is this some sort of “in my day, a man’s word meant something” take?
Tristen Newton signed with East Carolina. Cam Spencer signed with Loyola of MD. Different circumstances but often 18 year old kids make mistakes in judgment.
It's not company money is either case. It's more a question of what members of the Walton family decide to do with their money, rather than what Walmart does. The family has spent lots of their exceptional personal fortunes on projects and activities in Arkansas. The Tyson money is coming from John Tyson, grandson of the company's founder...
Or Charlie V, Khalid, or Deandre...
That's what's so dumb about NIL. John Tyson doesn't care about the name, image or likeness of Arkansas basketball players for his personal social media. The NCAA lost their battle and war. Just give up and let alums and the schools pay the players. They'll become subject to real contracts. Things like two-year contracts with restrictive covenants like a non-competition limited to P5 programs or in-conference programs, clawbacks, performance bonuses, signing bonuses. Fans may not like it, but what we have is just dumb.
Or any transfer we have had. It’s an objectively silly take.
Could you imagine the disaster this would be...
I do fear the long term consequences of unionization of teenage athletes. Over time the game will be less competitive, you’ll get less real improvement as there will be guardrails limiting how hard a coach can push a player. Their peers will convince them that they’re being mistreated. I think the coach-centric approach is better with this age group than the player-centric approach.
So it's fine for the WNBA, and rookie contracts in the NBA, but would be a total disaster in college? O.K.
Not sure you wanna use the WNBA as a shining example of anything that works from a financial standpoint. They wouldn't exist if the nba didn't supplement them 10s of millions of dollars.
You can have different pay scales for different sports. What is scary is what Dartmouth MBB did. They chose a bargaining unit that also represents other Dartmouth employees. The union, in theory, could hold the basketball team hostage while trying to negotiate better agreements for maintenance workers or housekeepers. The MBB team could potentially be forced into a strike they are not in favor of.
The WNBA is a disaster. Unionization would be a disaster for college sports.
I was at the game.. Hard disagree. Nowell is better. Had rebounds and assists, pushed the ball hard and defended full court. Fland had two drives to the basket.
I'm not really a fan of Boogie Fland's game.
Yeah, Nowell was the best PG on the floor. He was getting others involved and taking his whenever it became available.
Are you following him? The comparison would be NBA guys on NWSL minimum contracts.
In his defense. A lot of Tristen Newton to his game.
