Mullins Revenge
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Maybe i asked it wrong. Will it not be as fun as you are not rooting for amateurs anymore?
There was always an innocence w/ college hoops. I feel like that may be gone now.
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There was always an innocence w/ college hoops. I feel like that may be gone now.
While I don't agree NIL as currently set up, I'm ok with kids getting paid (in addition to the value of degree) since everyone else is profiting off them, as long as they represent well and actually go to class and try to get an education while here. Ideally multiple years at same school.
Congress involvement (aka pandering) will accelerate the process. Eventually unions will infiltrate and players will band together to ”sell” their services to the NIL collective in whatever form exists at the time.
The only hope for true college basketball will be that the P6 break away and become a minor league - with the rest of the college bball reverting back to what it was. Will be interesting competition w/G League…the NBA teams may view this as opportunity to avoid cost of subsidizing a G League team.
L J S A
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There hasn't been an innocence w/college hoops in 60+ years.
Blame the feckless NCAA for the lack of control that now exists in college athletics.
Had the NCAA allowed reasonable stipends to be paid to D1 athletics then this may have been avoided.
And, had the NCAA provided leadership by promulgating uniform rules for member schools then this unwieldy transfer portal and N$L could have been avoided.
Had the NCAA allowed reasonable stipends to be paid to D1 athletics then this may have been avoided.
And, had the NCAA provided leadership by promulgating uniform rules for member schools then this unwieldy transfer portal and N$L could have been avoided.
Teamsters seems like a natural fit name wise for the union
Mullins Revenge
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Yeah but at least they tried to hide it. And I dont believe it happened at all universities. Now it is out in the open and all colleges involved.
RedStormRising
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It doesn’t sound like the Wild West it just sounds like a labor market.
billthetruth
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Syracuse booster ends NIL support for school
Adam Weitsman says that he will no longer provide NIL deals to SU athletes or bring celebrities to SU athletic events.
www.sportsbusinessjournal.com
billthetruth
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Sorry. Just saw it was posted earlierSyracuse booster ends NIL support for school
Adam Weitsman says that he will no longer provide NIL deals to SU athletes or bring celebrities to SU athletic events.
Rocket
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That's an understatement!
Not only is any semblance of innocence gone but players may as well dress in drag as 10th Avenue hookers carrying a sign that tells you how much you have to pay them for them to play
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L J S A
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You've been gone a while. There's now $10 million condos and a fancy ass mall where hookers used to be.
We didn't create this system. I think we've been out on the smoky ridges of this thing from the beginning. It is what it is. 'We' cannot do anything about this.
I'm all in, IF we're lucky enough to have found $$$--tickets--$$$ for the mezzanine, lol.
Ya gotta be in it to win it.
NCAA is making a boatload of money! That’s why they agreed to NIL’s, so no money would be taken out of their pockets. It’s all self serving. A bunch of crooks. They should put all the profits in one basket (fund) and all D1 athletes should have access to it depending on years of service!
The NCAA is going to get burned by the amount of N$L and the abundance of sports gambling sites. You are giving kids all different amounts of money and with the ease of gambling, there is ZERO doubt in my mind that you will see many instances of point shaving.
There has always been point shaving but it was a process of finding and having a bookie and going through a lot of trouble. Now it is done with a few clicks and that NIL of 22K just became 42K.
There has always been point shaving but it was a process of finding and having a bookie and going through a lot of trouble. Now it is done with a few clicks and that NIL of 22K just became 42K.
I'm thinking this could benefit us with the amount of money Eric and Monte betting and Monte giving opposing players offers they cant refuse
As much as I might not like the NIL as it is currently structured, there is nothing that can be done for those who long for the "purity" of amateur athletics. It is the way the game is now played/ Amateur is a word that no longer goes with athletics; i.e., the Olympics was seen as the epitome of amateurism. For those looking for a sense of amateurism suggest you go to a Division 3 game such as St. Joseph's University of Brooklyn versus Old Westbury.
with Ledlum, Silas, and Mackenzie (yes I know I’m crossing movie references please don’t send for me)
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To me at least the dots you are trying to connect are very far apart. NIL gives kids who largely never had much at all, some serious money. Point shaving had gamblers like Jack Molinas give kids with nothing a few hundred or thousand bucks to not affect the outcome of games, just the point spread. It's a really big stretch to suppose a college athlete who now has an income source would risk both thst income and his livelihood by trying to gamble and impact the spread.
Interesting thought on your part, but to me if you list all the things wrong with NIL, the increased risk of the renaissance of point shaving would not exist on my list.
Monte has a little bit of Chaz look to him. But then again he has a little bit of every mobster I've seen in movies look to him too
