Rick Pitino - Head Coach at St John’s University!!!
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jerseyshorejohnny
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I love that Rick is trying to fix a broken system. Not sure if this is the solution but Rick is on the right path.
The only way this avoids needing legislation is a CBA. That is how you avoid antitrust legislation. Which, again, to the chargin of some people on this board, you need to have the players as employees so they can unionize and then agree to a CBA. Otherwise, we're waiting for some complicated bill to pass in Washington -- good luck with that.
But I agree with CRP. You need a salary cap, contracts that are binding and are not by default 1 year deals (if anything, maybe HS recruits are 2 years by default w/out transfer). The salary cap can be part of revenue sharing from TV contracts. You can even allow NIL anyway that is outside of these payments, just like how a guy with the Knicks can also get an endorsement deal.
This will turn some people off, but this will be much better for the sport, college product, and the coaches and players.
Anthony Mattia
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A salary cap, and 2 year contracts with a void clause if the coach leaves regardless of reason
Redenbacher
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Once the basketball players are on salary, then all the other sports are going to demand it in the name of "fairness." SJU will be putting the members of the women's softball team on salary. This is more far reaching than people make it out to be.
Pitino says college basketball needs salary cap
St. John's coach Rick Pitino said the sport needs a salary cap and a new hierarchy to thrive after a ruling allows players to unionize.
Nothing in this is new outside the tweet, but he sure does make news.
alright I thought his comments after the UConn game were sour grapes but this…. This brings up a really good point.
If there isn’t any type of checks and balances, or some sort of cap, the best teams will just be the richest teams. If the NCAA wants to maintain their sports having any type of credibility or fairness, they will need to implement something like this.
Rick is standing up for all schools/universities here who don’t have the resources to just pump 100s of millions of dollars into sports programs like some of these blue blood SEC football programs or state schools
all of this shifting into college athletics becoming professional sports is just… a bummer. Even though I (somewhat) understand why its happening, it sure is something to behold
If there isn’t any type of checks and balances, or some sort of cap, the best teams will just be the richest teams. If the NCAA wants to maintain their sports having any type of credibility or fairness, they will need to implement something like this.
Rick is standing up for all schools/universities here who don’t have the resources to just pump 100s of millions of dollars into sports programs like some of these blue blood SEC football programs or state schools
all of this shifting into college athletics becoming professional sports is just… a bummer. Even though I (somewhat) understand why its happening, it sure is something to behold
guinness77
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Can’t wait until some freshman “making” $2 mil a year is getting the crap booed out of him by an arena of grown adults if he doesn’t live up to his “contract.”
I guess that player would be opening himself up to that kind of criticism in that scenario but still an interesting thought if that ever came to fruition.
I guess that player would be opening himself up to that kind of criticism in that scenario but still an interesting thought if that ever came to fruition.
MugCostanza
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Said it before but a salary cap is going to be impossible to enforce and won't make much of a difference at such a small number. Legally, a salary cap won't be able to limit "NIL" at all no matter what happens really.Pitino says college basketball needs salary cap
St. John's coach Rick Pitino said the sport needs a salary cap and a new hierarchy to thrive after a ruling allows players to unionize.www.espn.com
Nothing in this is new outside the tweet, but he sure does make news.
If there had been a $2M salary cap for this season, there's still nothing that could stop Hunter Dickinson from making $3M+ in NIL on top of whatever salary Kansas would give him. It's going to need new legislation to be passed limiting NIL (can't see that happening) for this type of system to work. The richest teams would still be able to subvert the cap through NIL.
I hope the players are more focused on DePaul than Rick seems to be.
RP on a roll, Law & Order reference, “Sixty Minutes” appearance on Selection Sunday next?
Or Saturday Night Live with the way Rick's rolling
Redenbacher
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RP on a roll, Law & Order reference, “Sixty Minutes” appearance on Selection Sunday next?
"the NCAA loses more cases than the defense lawyers on Law & Order."
That's pure gold from CRP.
Well, him being focused and them not hasn’t worked so………………as an ex Hs school at a fairly high level, coaching is certainly a big part of the equation but at the end of the day, players play……or not.
One of the mantras I always preached, I can teach you the game, I can put in systems and try to maximize strengths and hide weaknesses but I can’t teach effort; I can try and facilitate the development of team chemistry, but I can’t make a team play for each other; and I sure as heck can’t teach anyone to care.
