Kolek planning to go pro
I would say most of the sponsorship is through gear (uniforms, shoes, warmups, etc.). The rest is on the team (parents). For instance, the five hs NY2LA tourney's cost $2400 - $2600 (for all of them). Add some out of state tourneys, hotels, travel, etc. and you can see it add up quickly. I would say team fees in the area range from $500 - $1,000 per kid. That would be in line with WI Shooters, WI Swing, Playground Wariors, Ray Allen, DTA, Playground Elite. In high school, a lot of teams finish their season in Las Vegas at the Fab 48, Las Vegas Classic, Adidas Uprising, etc. Just imagine the costs of just getting there. All programs try to do some amount of fundraising, but it is difficult. Obviously, the better the team, the more elite tourneys they enter. That is where the heavy travel and sponsorship really come in. And I think that was my point from earlier -- Diamond (and high-level dudes like him) aren't worrying about how to get to Nike Peach Jam or UA's Jayhawk Invitation and where they can get a $45 room rate like most. I can only speak for myself -- at good AAU program like those listed above, the team budget will be $10,000 and that doesn't include major travel, hotel, expenses. Some groups pay coaches. Some pay for coaches' travel and meals. Some pay for gym rental. Embroidery. Alternate shooting shirts. Insurance. Balls. It all adds up. Craziest amount I heard a few years back was some team from Iowa where each kid paid something like over $3,000 or $4,000. I believe it was year round and they had 24/7 gym access, but that blew my mind.
Her twitter saying is "Smell my Finger." With comments like that, calling her a cum dumpster is probably nothing new to her. That dude in the twitter photo is probably just happy that diamond won't be around to smell that finger.
Just going on limited personal experience. There are a lot of sponsors who give money here and there, but pretty much most teams charge a team fee to the player cover items like travel, tourney fees, and some gear. I know a lot of sponsors locally like Devin Harris, Joe Pryzbilla and Ray Allen give gear, or a little bit of money. The gear is typically given by the NBA player's shoe sponsor. (So Harris gives his team adidas and Allen gives Jordan). My point was (and perhaps I didn't make it clear enough), when you have a guy like Diamond, Under Armour comes in a pays for EVERYTHING THEY POSSIBLY CAN legally -- beyond the "typical" sponsorship. The kind of sponsorship that happens to "big-name players." That doesn't happen to many teams; most teams get a little sponsorship...
Let's clear a few things up.Yes Bo wanted Diamond badly.Yes by all accounts he verballed before the end of '14 and was admitted last weekWhat happened after that nobody knows..but I suspect it is about shoes. UW will move on.The graduation stuff is ridiculous. The guy quoted a 2004 -2007 report which was admittedly not good.That class had 2 transfers who were morons. Whether they left in good standing I don't know. Since then all but 2 African American players have graduated. Tucker. Landry, Flowers, Evans, Taylor and Wilson. IIRC the only players to NOT graduate are Kam Taylor and Hughes. So STOP with the zero percent stuff, it only makes you look silly. A local, bitter, lazy liberal columnist for the equally lazy, liberal Boston Globe took and old report and made it look current. There is a lot of much more current APR information around that he chose to ignore.The 6 year rule is what it is. But 3 players who played in the NBA and overseas came back to finish a few credits. Landry Tucker Flowers.The graduation rate for UW players is actually very good. It doesn't matter how the NCAA measures it. Facts are facts. All the UWMilwaukee reporter had to do was hit "google" but he was either too lazy or had an agenda.
Don't get dizzy from all that spinning.
He's 100% accurate. That's doesn't mean the report was wrong - the report was objectively correct given the parameters it measured. But his explanation is accurate.
The graduation stuff is ridiculous. The guy quoted a 2004 -2007 report which was admittedly not good.That class had 2 transfers who were morons. Whether they left in good standing I don't know. Since then all but 2 African American players have graduated. Tucker. Landry, Flowers, Evans, Taylor and Wilson. IIRC the only players to NOT graduate are Kam Taylor and Hughes. So STOP with the zero percent stuff, it only makes you look silly. A local, bitter, lazy liberal columnist for the equally lazy, liberal Boston Globe took and old report and made it look current. There is a lot of much more current APR information around that he chose to ignore.The 6 year rule is what it is. But 3 players who played in the NBA and overseas came back to finish a few credits. Landry Tucker Flowers.The graduation rate for UW players is actually very good. It doesn't matter how the NCAA measures it. Facts are facts. All the UWMilwaukee reporter had to do was hit "google" but he was either too lazy or had an agenda.
Are we sure about that? My understanding is that the numbers he looked at was the NCAA's GSR Report and looked at the freshman classes from 2004-2007, which had 6 years to obtain their degree from their school (so the freshman class of 2007 would have until May 2014 to obtain their degree). It was not an outdated report from 2004-2007. It was the freshman classes, since their 6 years finished in 2014, or last year. They can't put out the report for this year because the school year has not ended yet. So next year's report will look at the freshman classes of 2005-2008. The freshman class of 2005 has until May 2012 to get their degree, the freshman class of 2008 has until May 2015 to complete their degree, etc. Maybe I'm looking at it completely wrong, but that's what seems to be what the report is looking at if you go to the link that the reporter provides and search each school's GSR Report.
100% correct, the report IS the latest info.
Well I will say the program has produced a lot of Overseas type players. They chase the dream, make some$$ and come back. As an alum its fine with me.
Dead last? Prove it.With some relatively current data.Bitter jealously is a bad emotion Heisy
68/68. Come on, the article was published this week. Don't pretend it isn't common knowledge.