Christ! Did Payne ever come out publicly and say this is what I’m getting paid and that’s why I’m heading to Maryland.
Here…I’m going to throw a number out there. $49,345.37. I think that is what Parker Fox got last year.
For clarification purposes, please refer to the video on U of M officials preparing their final offers for transfer prospects:
I agree brother
The reality, and it stinks, is that there is wild money being spent to buy teams. The exact amounts, we don't know. But the evidence is there that the sums are very large. If they were not, these kids would not be running to the portal, with agents in hand, like it was the gold rush of 1849. You are in denial. There is no reason to lash out at posters who are just recognizing the obvious.
This is a reckoning of market forces. There hasn't seemed to be much of a market for professional basketball in the United States other than the NBA and WNBA. And other than, of course, this nascent NCAA pro association. If there was something that could compete with "college" basketball, it might emerge, but I don't think there will be. We're still dealing with one draft round of NBA sure things each year and one round of NBA hopefuls, and that's the extent of purely pro opportunities in the US. The new landscape of "college" BB is proving to be an employment enterprise for basketball players that didn't exist before and that spectators would actually show up to watch. I'll be curious to see if it maintains it's appeal when it becomes and is recognized as the professional league that never existed before because there was no market for it.
which is why they need a hard set number of years for playing in the NCAA....whether it 5 years or 6 years.
my opinon is this will wear off quickly on college basketball fans
It's interesting that the courts have focused almost entirely on the rights of players, but it's brought up the question of whether an entity like the NCAA or anyone has the right to organize an athletic association with rules and regulations. MLB has an antitrust exemption, but what rights do the other pro leagues have to restrict player movement and cap salaries? That's a serious question. Could this be the beginning of an age of chaos in all of sports?
...or that they should be able to compete at a college as a high-school dropout?
You aren't wrong but there is zero chance those groups will all work together because they all have different goals in this.
Yeah, if none of the other rules matter, I do not see how there can be a legal argument against middling pro athletes "returning" to college. What would stop Tennessee from offering Will Levis $8 million to return to college?
I wasn't asking why he would want to return. I get all of that.
I think the only way would be contractually and Title IX is going to make that very difficult.
Aaron Rodgers is looking for a one year gig….
You also thought it felt like Ben Johnson was returning...maybe take some Pepto
Yeah.....hopefully a solution is found eventually to restore some sanity to all of this but I'm not holding my breath that it is going to happen anytime soon.
Yeah, it seems like a reasonable solution would be best for everyone - players included.
Problem is that everyone seems to have a completely different definition of what reasonable is. Personally I thought the old eligibility rules were pretty damn reasonable (5 years to play 4) but apparently that is not the case.
Trying to be sarcastic. Athlete wants to do something; that's a good enough argument since there seems to be no rules.
I think college athletics will get it figured out eventually (hopefully) but it is far more complicated then pro leagues where you have far fewer teams and all the teams are setup similarly.
Good summary! The "multiple sports" and "wildly different levels of resources available" hasn't been talked about enough, going back to the genesis of players sharing in the bounty. That whole reform and the media coverage of it was from the myopic standpoint of major-conference programs and revenue sports.
In the end I think if Garcia was eligible to come back and wanted to play here there would be very few posters that would truly not want him back on the team next year. I'm sure there would be a few but most would gladly welcome him back because he is a really good player and would definitely make next year's team better (how much so remains to be seen but we are highly unlikely to be able to land a big who is better than Garcia in the portal, there just aren't many of those guys out there).
We all would want him back as a basketball player. We are saying that if he is allowed back, college basketball as we know it is over. He has played 5 seasons of college basketball, if he gets a sixth, it's hard to imagine why he shouldn't get a 7th or why Luka Garza wouldn't come back to make $5 million in the NCAA rather than $1 million riding the bench in the NBA.
Not lashing out. I don’t deny there’s money out there but when people throw numbers out there like they know or have info nobody else has is ridiculous.