It's pretty sad, there is a local senior recruit who was being pursued by the highest of high majors over the last 2 years and his recruiting has come to a standstill (in my opinion largely due to) because of the portal. Teams are completely terrified of building with freshmen.
Definitely a side effect of the player empowerment/transfer rules (which I generally agree with). NCAA needs to get a hold of the situation. I actually do think Baker is a good leader and will figure it out.
Agree it’s sad, but very unfortunately understandable; NIL and transfer rules were put in place so the NCAA could protect their income stream. The “student athlete” as always is just a tool to be used, to quote Dylan, “Only a pawn in their game”.
I believe there are no restrictions anymore.
The bodies in the Vincentian Coaches Graveyard are piling up. Seems like SJU and Blue Demons are about even.
DePaul fires Tony Stubblefield as Blue Demons’ struggles continue
The Blue Demons were 28-54 overall and 9-38 in Big East play in two-plus seasons under Stubblefield.nypost.com
That is true. I would implement a severe penalty for that. Something like a two year death penalty for a program that gets caught handing out money outside the NIL.
It would have to be similar consequences to what would happen if a NBA/NFL/MLB team went beyond payroll. It's easily doable.
A salary or NIL cap can't work because the NCAA, nor conferences, nor schools themselves can legally limit the amount of "NIL" a player can receive. Any type of salary or NIL cap will be met with immediate lawsuits that will almost certainly succeed
Unless they are allowed to collectively bargain and come up with that limit together.
True enough . Except now we hired Pitino and the firings should stop.
A) That would require players to unionize
A: Yes, I personally think its inevitable. This limbo isn't good for anyone.
Yes I agree. Unfortunately understandable is the accurate phrase to describe it. Especially when you look at a situation like what Coach Pitino walked into. You want to win right away and the obvious route to that is older experienced players where the learning curve isn't so steep. But it comes at a price. Continuous roster overturning, lack of continuity year to year for the majority of the roster, culture rebuilding etc
We are on the verge of these players becoming university employees. So why not go all in and have them “unionize”? They are still going to get paid and have it much better than players before them. Even non unionized jobs have salary ranges.
There is the possibility that the “Pitino approach”, player development, just may be OBE’d by this brave new world, emphasis on possibility, but no secret to anyone not in a coma that the world has morphed big time into an instant gratification mode. I hope not but the thought is there, at least in my mind.
The fact that numerous university higher ups are openly talking about splitting revenues with players make this inevitable.
