OT: Jim Larranaga Retiring

[yungdowork]

Personally, I'm pretty much in favor of players having as much power as possible. An athletic career for the average D-1 athlete ends before they're 24, they need to leverage it as much as possible. If schools or coaches are mad that players are seeking better opportunities, then they should find a way to provide better opportunities for their players.

Larranaga made almost 3 million a year at Miami, and, according to this tweet that was thrown around a lot at the time, his entire Final Four roster got 2.2 million in NIL payments. It's pretty hard for me to feel too bad for coaches in this situation.

 

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Conveniently leaving out UConn who went back to back in the most dominant fashion ever is really bizarre. Remy Martin had 14 points in the national championship game and Brady Manek had 13/13 and 4 blocks in the national championship game. He was awesome for UNC all season.

Both players were grad transfers who spent 4 years at their previous school (Oklahoma and Iowa State). It wasn’t the current day portal situation.

It’s okay to just say something is fair and not have to reach like this. Outside of UConn because of the system we’ve been blessed to have in place, this landscape has not helped blue bloods at all.

 

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Personally, I'm pretty much in favor of players having as much power as possible. An athletic career for the average D-1 athlete ends before they're 24, they need to leverage it as much as possible. If schools or coaches are mad that players are seeking better opportunities, then they should find a way to provide better opportunities for their players.

Larranaga made almost 3 million a year at Miami, and, according to this tweet that was thrown around a lot at the time, his entire Final Four roster got 2.2 million in NIL payments. It's pretty hard for me to feel too bad for coaches in this situation.

I’m all for player empowerment and them getting paid. What we have right now is just a mess though that shouldn’t be hard to fix.

Have players get paid through the actual spirit of NIL (endorsements, sponsorships, etc.) and give players a one time transfer.

There’s no reason guys should play for 4 different schools in 4 different years. Outside of the money aspect, that generally hurts a players on and off the court development.

 

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I hated the one-and-done era. It was iso ball not team ball. I hate that brand of basketball. Team ball is so much more enjoyable, it's a team sport.

If you didn’t like watching players like Kevin Durant, Michael Beasley, Derrick Rose, John Wall, etc. you just don’t like watching basketball man.

 

[NJHusky]

What makes him a hall of fame coach? Two final fours? Longevity?

Agree.....don't think any way he should be in the HOF...barely the Hall of Very Good..Buying a trip to the FF with Miami and another with a bogus foul on Hilton? Being good enough to be a coach for 40 years?

 

[superjohn]

Both players were grad transfers who spent 4 years at their previous school (Oklahoma and Iowa State). It wasn’t the current day portal situation.

It’s okay to just say something is fair and not have to reach like this. Outside of UConn because of the system we’ve been blessed to have in place, this landscape has not helped blue bloods at all.

"Outside of UConn because of the system we've been blessed to have in place."

What on earth does this mean?

 

[Scoe]

SEC lead Oklahoma ranked 8th in NIL loses to Navy, maybe Brent Venables should retire now it's too tough with the NIL.

 

[Waquoit]

If you didn’t like watching players like Kevin Durant, Michael Beasley, Derrick Rose, John Wall, etc. you just don’t like watching basketball man.

Basketball is a team game.