Report: 2 More Scholarships for MBB

[WhereistheDove?]

I don't see how this in any way benefits the UConn program or the team.

But if I was a wannabe coach of a wannabe team, I'd love the idea of being able to stockpile players hoping a few would be cheaper and better than expected.

Just not sure how much impact it has in the age of the portal for basketball. A lot of the guys that in the past may have developed on the deep bench of a big program are now going to smaller programs for the first year or two. Even teams with huge NIL, it seems like a better investment to pick guys off the portal once they’ve developed than to hope they pan put way at the end of your bench, while paying them.

 

[CL82]

Maybe. They've clearly decided that a larger percentage of the pie, even if they shrink the college sports pie, is in their interests. I don't know that I intuitively agree with that, but I will assume that conclusion has been reached after tons of market studies. Doesn't mean the decision will ultimately be right, but I do think that's where the smart money is.

It would be smart to have studied it. I'm not certain that that has happened.

 

[navery12]

I don't see how this in any way benefits the UConn program or the team.

But if I was a wannabe coach of a wannabe team, I'd love the idea of being able to stockpile players hoping a few would be cheaper and better than expected.

It'll have minimal impact on UConn. The teams it would theoretically hurt are the teams who wanted to go over the scholarship limit by offering walk-ons NIL packages to make up for the scholarship money. That's no longer an option