Oso planning to go pro
NIL is the ruination of college athletics, as we know it. The rich will get richer..., hey?
Never felt more confident of the future of college athletics
Confident of what?
It won't be the "ruination" of anything and the rich have always gotten richer.Not sure if in the long run it will benefit Marquette however.
So if it won't be good for Marquette is it safe to say it will be much worse for mid-majors? And if that's the case the tournament becomes way, way, way, worse?
Never fails, the Wizard puts everything in prospective, aina?
Well “the tournament” isn’t “college athletics.” So what is bad for one isn’t necessarily bad for the other.
Why bother calling it "college athletics"?
So, the elites get the best players and the non-elites fight to build teams out of the thousands of basketball players not recruited by the elites.
There's more to it than just that. This could be an unmitigated disaster Tower.
Adapt or die. The NCAA had a plethora of opportunities over the years to change and it ignorantly held firm in the belief of "amateur" athletics - something that really hasn't truly existed in its written form in decades. It developed into a billion dollar industry with free labor, and ultimately the courts have viewed what is the amateur model of the NCAA as unconstitutional with all of the rulings it has either passed or upheld. Marquette can continue to be a high-level program within this current landscape. It has the market, it has the focus (no football) and it has the support behind the scenes. I am not worried at all about that. What will need to happen is to let the market settle over the course of several years for there to be a wider and better understanding of NIL, the portal and have some type of consistency. What is a by-product of the current system is that there are many student-athletes that have not signed any written agreement, but promised $$$ through NIL, that never came through or went unfulfilled. There should be a standard contract for all these student-athletes (and schools/NIL providers can put a final pay date at the end of a season, thus preventing or encouraging mid-season or even postseason transfers). Protects both sides IMO. There's still so much to figure out that a majority of current athletic departments and coaches don't fully grasp yet.
Don't undermine a good post with false claims of "free labor". You threaten your credibility.
Not being ruined, at least by NIL.Ruined by conferences? Yes. Ruined by the people leading it? Yes. Not by NIL
Under compensated labor.