Kolek planning to go pro
Nonsense. Keeping talent in college basketball is GREAT for the game. And NIL will do that.
Not really. Guys will still declare.
It is not about keeping talent in college basketball. It is about the large alumni schools paying for the top talent.
I don’t think you get Vipers point. It’s how you argue not your argument.
Does it really matter if they play for this team or that team?They just want the money.Why make them attend classes?It is just taking time away for improving themselves as professional players.
Large alumni schools were already paying for the top talent. The only thing that's changed in that regard is they are announcing the deals publicly.
Why are pro sports boring?
Yeah, pro sports are significantly better and more entertaining than college sports.
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.
How much competitive balance exists in college football? Alabama, Clemson, other hot SEC team, TBD. There is your final 4 next year.
TAMUI do know, Newsie is right on you knowing ball.
Will be interesting to see the fan enthusiasm over the years. To myself pro sports are boring.Will college basketball become the same?Time will tell.
21/32 (65.6%) of the CFP spots have been taken by one of Alabama, Clemson, Ohio State, and Oklahoma. It raises to 25/32 (78.1%) if you add in Georgia and Notre Dame. Of the 7 teams to make the CFP that aren't one of those 6 teams, 5 have lost in the first game of the CFP. 1 lost in the Finals (Oregon in the very first year of the CFP) and 1 won it (LSU in 2019). There is no competitive balance in college football.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.And as others have said, College basketball has been dealing with this already for years. Except now everyone can play instead of the few programs that were willing to risk NCAA violations.
Is the players making money what makes pro sports boring to you?
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.
No, it is the going through the motions.
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?