Oso planning to go pro
Vander leading the Mexican League in Scoringhttps://basketball.realgm.com/international/league/76/Mexican-LNBP
This thread is a great argument for having a Basketball Major or Minor.
This thread is a great argument for having a Basketball Major or Minor. How many scholarship players have we had who did not play in the NBA / G League / Overseas for a few years? Matt Heldt seems to be the only one.
I guess if you want to have your school lose accreditation, that's a great idea. Otherwise, it's not.
I would imagine there's a middle ground between creating a minor that prepares players for a 5-10 year professional career overseas + post playing opportunities in coaching, scouting and individual instruction and losing a University losing its accreditation.
What you are advocating is a job skills program - not an academic course of study.
Maybe it could be part of sports management specialty in the College of Business.
It's funny to me that advocating to help 12 students who drive millions of dollars of exposure, marketing and revenue for your University be prepared for success in their post University life could hurt your University's academic standing.
How much did UNC's joke of an African American Studies program hurt its academic standing?At least we could be reasonably confident that MU would make a Sports Management program a legitimate course of study.
African American Studies is not 'a joke' my friend... It's as legitimate to some as any other studies you can elect to take.What do you mean?
TAMUI do know, Newsie is right on you knowing ball.
She didn't say African American studies is a joke. She said the one at UNC was a joke. There was a several year investigation that found that most of the classes were faked so that athletes could pass easily
And UNC's defense was that it was an accreditation issue and that the NCAA shouldn't bother itself with athlete academic cheating.
Vander continuing his hot ways in Mexican League. After 18 games leading the league in scoring at 22.1. Also shooting 52.2% on 3s. Making 78.9 percent of his free throws , which have been a problem in the past for him. 4.17 assist and 4.11 Rebounds. Delighted for Vander's success so far this year. https://basketball.realgm.com/player/Vander-Blue/Summary/9340
Reading through that history of signing and cuts. Sure does infer that he burnt a lot of bridges. At 29 his window may have closed.
I’m not sure he burnt a lot of bridges. I think he’s a good player who is not a good enough player to be in the NBA. Many of those guys go to Europe, but Vander stayed in the G-League hoping for a call-up. This led to some Summer League invites.He’s basically a AAAA player in baseball.
Sure it’s 3 years later and now he’s likely a double A player sticking with the baseball analogy (I guess I don’t really understand the AAAA…)
One of the homegrown Japanese stars resigned last year for a deal that was close to $1MM annually. And Nick Fazekas, another American who found a place as a star in the B League, gave an interview not long ago saying that coming back to the NBA on a minimum or a lot of places in Europe would be a pay cut, so safe to say DG is probably safely over that $500K mark in a league where he is beloved, likely has plenty of sponsorship/marketing opportunities, and could continue to play for another decade