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A St Johns fan I know says that Pitino has access to a ton of money to buy players. Pitino and the New York market are perfect for each other.

Nique Clifford went from scoring 6 a game to 12 and then 19 per game and made himself into a draftable player. Who did we pick up that has that potential when put into the right situation? I would think that Reynolds, Willis and Durkin all could be possible lead scorers. I still would like to...

Diffident Spaulding.

The agents are essentially hybrid lawyers. A lot of these contracts are 100k or less. No agent is going to do a deal for a few thousand dollars. It is not worth their time.

Well he can- but you will say it's not true. All the information out there is certainly not accurate here, but I think you are fighting against reality because reality seems so bizarre. It is strange- but probably more true than not.

My guess is that it is negotiable based on the size of the deal that gets struck. They might get 20% of a 150k deal and take 10 or 15% of a million dollar deal. The athletes have a choice on agents so I am sure those commission rates a competitive. A search of the subject suggests a 10-20% range...

The beauty of this kid, besides his great size, is that he is just going to be a sophomore and he showed a lot of improvement during his freshman year. Lots and lots of upside here.

If they become our feeder then they can have threads here! ;)

I'd like to see another 40% 3 point shooter come our way.

Yep- hoping Niko can do with him what Pitino did with Mo Walker. Mo was quite a bit more hefty at 300#, but when he got to 250 he was a really nice player inside. This kid with the right coaching and conditioning might be a real find.

YES! Big get! Literally. Love this find. Stealth Niko operating!!

The players actually do have a common interest with the NCAA and the Universities: Sustainability of the business model. Two three more years of this and the TV contracts will start to shrink and so will the NIL dollars. Putting together a system with a logical, even lucrative cap, is a winning...

I know this much- I saw the clips of last year's squad in the spring and thought we were in trouble. The video on these guys is far better and I believe they rate higher. Niko isn't done and I have to believe that one guy who is perhaps higher on the pay scale than any we have so far.

Aaron Rodgers is looking for a one year gig….

Right. My point is that the team which crossed that low bar had 7 Big Ten wins. Can better talent and coaching get us to 10 or so? There is at least hope! For me, I don't need Garcia, but I think we need a 6-9 or 6-10 kid that can defend and provide a little offense. It is great to have a...

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...

The secret for most mid major teams has been to develop kids and get better as a group. That's done for in this era.

Not to me. Are you Egyptian?

They left the major reason out of the article: $$$$$$$$$$

That may be true but I think at this point the preponderance of evidence points to the probability that a guy like Garcia would go for a million plus. Payne is said to have gotten 1.5 million to go to Maryland. Maybe he did and maybe he didn't but there is a TON of money flowing right now in...