Oso planning to go pro
Yeah I don't see that at all when I watch professional sports when compared to college sports.
College basketball will not have the same problem because the NCAAT is the great equalizer. Teams can still have great and memorable playoff runs without winning the national championship. Also, while the top teams will continue to have the most representation in the later of the rounds of the tournament, it is not a guarantee because in a 6 round single elimination tournament, anything can happen. On any given night, St. Peter's can knock off Kentucky, even though Kentucky is loaded with players making hundreds of thousands in NIL and St. Peter's is lucky if their players' NIL money could pool together to buy them something off the dollar menu.
Yeah, like taking a guy out after pitching 7 innings of perfect ball.
The NCAA tournament is “the great equalizer” where anything can happen? LOL. 35 tournament since seeding the teams began. 23 #1 seeds have won it all. 5#2s, 4#3s, 1 #4, #6, #7 and #8s. Zero #5, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15 and 16s. What St Peter’s did (15 seed reaching the E8) has happened once.Of course in any single elimination tournament there are upsets but when a 1seed wins 64% of the time and a 1,2 or 3 wins it 90% of the time I think it’s fair to say that the very top teams dominate the tournament.
Yep.Like you, I choose to be an optimist: NIL will not destroy college basketball; and Marquette will end up doing A-OK, at least as well as we have in the first 45 post-Al years.If others want to get all doom-and-gloomy about it, that's their right, even if they have no basis for their doom and gloom because there are far too many unanswered questions now.
Nothing TAMU said is inconsistent with this.
Untrue. The NCAA tournament is not “the great equalizer”. It’s the tournament of chalk.
In the 45 post Al year’s MU has 1 FF, 1 E8 and 3 S16s. That’s A-OK to you, Mike?
This argument holds zero weight and is an insult to professional athletes
Boring.
It's only GREAT for the game if competitive balance is maintained, and that's not what is happening.Professional leagues understand this, and that's why we have salary caps, luxury taxes, and drafts that let the worst performers pick first. The pro leagues understand that it's not as entertaining for fans if only a handful of teams can afford to buy their way to championships.
The Premiere league disagrees
I think your last sentence is accurate. We do have too many unanswered questions to really know how it will all play out. My only concern is other teams poaching our best players yearly. Because if that happens we won’t get even close to post Al success. Our best players would leave before that success could be had.In the first few months of this new age of transferring and NIL we lost Garcia. In hindsight that was ok based on multiple issues that we don’t need to get into. But if this were to happen again to Lewis if he doesn’t turn pro, then it will be apparent we are no longer competing for tournament runs.As you said. We don’t know yet. Let’s hope MU steps up. I would definitely contribute to an NIL fund if it was available. It might be small change but with large numbers of contributors it would add up in a hurry.
Someone smarter and with more ambition than me needs to start an NIL collective. Here's a list of other schools having one:https://businessofcollegesports.com/tracker-university-specific-nil-collectives/
No, it is the going through the motions. They can get paid all they want. I am not paying their salary. If someone wants to pay them and people want to pay tickets, what do I care?
TAMUI do know, Newsie is right on you knowing ball.
So, like all college sports then
So is your argument that players will stop trying now that they are getting paid? How would I know whether a player will stop trying or not? Are college athletes the only people in the world who aren't motivated by compensation? Again, that is an individual athlete's choice. I can't answer that question.
Ultimately it is in the control of the fan, if the quality of play is not there, they will be turning their attention to items they are feel are of higher value for them.