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paultzman said:
AJ clearly in the running for newly instituted “Moose Award” for excessive uniform changes

AJ Storr’s school by year:

2018-19: Kankakee HS
2019-20: Bishop Gorman HS
2020-21: AZ Compass Prep
2021-22: IMG Academy
2022-23: St. John’s University
2023-24: University of Wisconsin
2024-25: The University of Kansas
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Welcome to the Jayhaw.... AJ?



Awkward The Simpsons GIF
 
hnkcolumbia said:
If he got paid by us, it wasn't for playing defense.
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If?

Do you think NIL just started happening this year? It's been going on for 30+ years, it just couldn't be talked about.

Every player you've loved since probably 1997 has been paid, in some way, to play basketball at SJU beyond just a schollie.

Remember Lavins first class? Coincidentally right after we were one of the first school to sign with a hungry Under Armour. All of those kids were paid. Everyone is and has been paid for years.
 
SeattleJohnny said:
If?

Do you think NIL just started happening this year? It's been going on for 30+ years, it just couldn't be talked about.

Every player you've loved since probably 1997 has been paid, in some way, to play basketball at SJU beyond just a schollie.

Remember Lavins first class? Coincidentally right after we were one of the first school to sign with a hungry Under Armour. All of those kids were paid. Everyone is and has been paid for years.
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All correct except Under Armour. We were not the first. They had many schools before us.
 
paultzman said:
AJ clearly in the running for newly instituted “Moose Award” for excessive uniform changes

AJ Storr’s school by year:

2018-19: Kankakee HS
2019-20: Bishop Gorman HS
2020-21: AZ Compass Prep
2021-22: IMG Academy
2022-23: St. John’s University
2023-24: University of Wisconsin
2024-25: The University of Kansas
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Pretty much sums up the current state of "amateur" basketball in one post. Leave it to you Paultz to say more with less. Some other poster could learn a lesson.
 
Money said:
What's your definition of collegiate athletics? Letting Universities that are awash in money use 'kids' to line the pockets of administrators, coaches and the like? It was a shit show system before but you were OK with it because you enjoyed the entertainment value... At who's cost?

Here's someone who says I will never donate a dime, but posts a thousand other messages for Repole to step up! Message clear... Give ME my entertainment value, this time at Repole's and others cost.
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Money,
The universities that are "awash in money" are the Ivy League schools and public ivies.
Sports is not the reason however.
The vast majority of schools lose money on their sports teams. The original concept of varsity sports on the collegiate level included the provision of a free education for talented athletes. The commercialization of two sports, football and basketball, became income generators for mostly state-funded schools who built 80,000 seat stadiums and 18,000 seat basketball arenas to accommodate their fans in places like Lexington, Austin, College Station, Columbus, and Ann Arbor.
Fast forward to the present day and colleges are obligated to provide equal sports opportunities to women athletes except for football.
That's a ton of scholarship money for most sports that are big dollar deficits for most colleges.
That football and basketball athletes were getting $100,000 benefits to play a sport to generate revenue to support all the other sports became irrelevant.
The sad reality is that greed has been formally included into collegiate sports and college athletes that should be seeking professional contracts have to negotiate annually with non-university entities for endorsement deals of questionable validity to their name or image.
Who is their employer? Can that employer have any legal connections to the university that the athlete plays a sport for and represents? This fraudulent non-relatiionship has bebased the collegiate game to point of making the term amateur meaningless.

The NFL and the NBA, along with the NCAA have conspired to deny young teenage athletes the opportunity to be compensated as professionals with artificial age limits to limit available positions. The NBA has created minor professional teams but the NFL has limited capability financially to establish more teams.

With the current NIL situation college basketball in particular has created an unbalanced market for players because of the nebulous arrangements for pay-to-play deals that benefit very few athletes in an unrealistic free market setting.
If full disclosure of NIL included an ironclad provision that includes the relationship between the university and the NIL source of funds were established, it could force a true open market for athletes who have real NIL value with established guidelines on salary caps just as in NBA rookie deals.
That way, those who are talented enough to play professional sports don't use their college sports scholarships to make more money than professionals in the Leagues of professional teams.
 
Moose said:
AJ Storr showed his teammates you can play for 7 schools and 7 years and do great so they are all following suit.
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I think it just shows that even though they were lucky to get into a public Ivy, it doesn't mean they are smart. Just opportunists chasing the bucks that will dry up before they turn 30 and have to get real jobs (without a Wisconsin degree).
 
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