Tl;dr - Many of the mids that advance in the tourney are older. Guys who've been together 2-3 years. Without that experience, expect fewer Cinderellas and fun underdog stories, while getting more middling boring P5s into 2nd weekend
How? This is on-brand for DH and if he's posting funny stuff to social I take it to mean we're in a good spot
You should stay off the internet.
I'm sorry you wasted your time on this post. This is useless drivel.
This is useless drivel, I'm sorry you spent the time typing it and I spent the time reading it.
? You mean like the NBA? Where owners profit off their labor but they can’t move around Willy nilly? You’re right in that I don’t see this going anywhere.
Are you paying attention? They are doing their damnedest to avoid it. Despite everything, they don't want anything that says these players are employees.
You cant
Where is the impetus for athletes To unionize when they effectively have unlimited free agency right now?
Players might want stability as well. Nobody wants to move all their crap 4 times in 4 years.
Try it again if UConn at some point becomes a portal loser. Yankee fans (including me) were pretty ok with free agency when NY was mostly immune from key departures. That didn’t last forever even though NY is still obviously a major player.
If you're going up my income by $1 million a year every time I move, I'll move as often as you'd like.
I never said a diamond in the rough player should be “trapped”. I am saying the fans of that lower tier team aren’t exactly thrilled at losing maybe the first real stud they ever had. As a UConn fan in the 60s I would not have done cartwheels if Kimball or Bialosukinia had jumped ship to say Duke. Or a few years later if Corny had decided to head to Chapel Hill. UConn was a high performing mid major. Let the kid be locked into a fixed term contract. 2 years is fine with me. Personally I don’t think a 19 or 20 year old is getting screwed if they are getting a full college ride and have to wait a year under paid contract before getting a very nice NIL deal if they can get it somewhere.
The NBA collectively bargains with the players to set up those guardrails. The NCAA is bending over backwards to not have to recognize college athletes as employees. It's not oven close to the same situation
Fair point haha
Agreed. The NCAA is dumb. But it’s the same concept as far as getting paid for what you do and having to make a commitment to the people who are paying you.
Nah. Services contracts in excess of $1000 need to be in writing. Therefore any NIL deal in excess of $1000 needs to be in writing simply under ordinary contract law. This is protective of players as well. Once you stick to that, it becomes easier to say an NIL contract between player and any booster of a team cannot occur until the player commits to the school.
I had used the term “diamond in the rough”. Anyway, i’m not so sure how the financial feasibility is calculated now into recruiting related budgets. You have a lot of staff time and money regarding every recruit and a state school is giving an out of stater 40 to 60 thousand worth of value and the privates 55000 and more a year. Is that money well spent on a player who leaves for more return after a year or two? Do they now have to include some sort of new loss factor into the budget? We might well be headed to employee status. The coaches are under contract already. One of the arguments