Kolek planning to go pro
Apparently, USA Basketball just found out today that they will be the organization responsible for determining the "elite" players. This sounds organized...
This is going to be a disaster. Can't wait for some type of class action lawsuits over the some players get agents some don't.
Why are they entering the draft, if they are not elite players? They do not need an agent. Also why would an agent want to represent a player that has no chance of being drafted? The undrafted player can just dump the agent, so there is no benefit for an agent trying to represent a non-elite player.
TAMUI do know, Newsie is right on you knowing ball.
https://www.si.com/college-basketball/2016/09/01/tony-anderson-southeast-missouri-state-nba-draft-one-done
Gee it's almost as if the NCAA, with its Condi Rice lead panel, was more interested in a big PR win than it was actually fixing the problems.
This plan is completely useless and doomed to failure. Here's why:Agents: This is stupid. First, USA Basketball determines "elite". What about foreign players like Lauri Markkanen or Jakob Poetl or Harry Froling? So what, they will allow the top-25 players, but exclude #26? Or allow 100 and exclude #101? And if you go back to school, you have to leave the agent. There are no benefits to this.Undrafted Returning to School: Maybe the worst of the rule change proposals. First, to qualify you have to be invited to the Combine but go undrafted. So that's an incredibly small pool of players. Second, you have 4 days after the draft to decide. So while you are getting invites from teams to play in the Summer League, you're supposed to make that choice without knowing how Summer League will go or what kind of professional opportunities you will get? Virtually no one will qualify or take advantage of this.Recruiting Period: Because of the shorter period, most likely the championship weekends for Adidas Uprising and Under Armour will be moved up to the same weekend as Peach Jam. That will spread coaches even thinner and make recruiting harder. And the youth camps will include probably at most 800 players per class? So how do kids 801-1500 and beyond that might be able to earn D1 scholarships, or even scholarships and aid from D2 and D3 schools get noticed?Visits: Recruits can now take 15 visits instead of 5, but schools can only host 28 instead of 24 over a two-year rolling period. So recruits increase their visits by 200% and schools increase it by 17%? That's nonsensical.Enforcement: We're supposed to believe ADs and Presidents will now be on the hook for the NCAA? Presidents oversee the entire school, not just athletics, it's tough to imagine the NCAA will ever be able to enforce their punishments on them. And increasing punishments never stops anything. Coaches still want players, players still want money, and agents and shoe companies still want a slice, so none of this will change anything.And that's the real problem. None of this will change anything. None of this actually addresses the issues the FBI investigation uncovered or any of the sweeping problems the NCAA says they are trying to fix. Allowing temporary agents won't get agents out of things and it won't legitimize them. Shutting out AAU coaches from the decision process won't fix AAU; no one in the room really understands it. This won't change what did or didn't happen at UNC, Louisville, Arizona, or any other schools that have been intermittently implicated because it doesn't address the actual issues.The NCAA is just showing again they don't understand the issues and are impotent to fix them.
Some of the progress made since the committee's proposals. It has only been a few months, but some action already taken.http://www.ncaa.org/about/committed-change
This is complete lip service, and shoddy lip service at that. How does this actually address players being able to come back to school after declaring they are going pro? The limitations put on those players effectively will prevent any players from coming back that want to. How does this address the illegal payments from shoe companies and agents? It doesn't at all.This isn't making progress or taking action, it's creating headlines to convince people progress was made. It's a complete sham that doesn't address any of the issues the FBI investigation opened in the first place.Further, this is actually making things worse for kids and coaches. For kids not part of the USA Basketball setup, how are they supposed to get noticed? You'll get maybe what, 800 kids per year in that setup? What about the hundreds beyond that number that still earn D1 scholarships, D2 scholarships, or get to play in D3? The NCAA is ACTIVELY working to make their lives worse. This is an attack on children.For the coaches, when do they get any time off? Changing the calendar like this will have them at USA basketball camps when they usually could have spent time with their families and raising their own children. Again, the NCAA is ACTIVELY working to make their lives worse.This organization is so incredibly blind and incompetent. Every bit of "progress made" and "action already taken" either fails to address the problem at hand or deliberately makes the lives worse of the people they claim to be trying to serve.
Yes, change is hard - but bad change is just stupid.