Quote from: JTJ3 on December 25, 2025, 12:03:00 PMNnaji is eligible because he never signed an NBA contract.  Yes, he played summer league,  but never was actually signed.  Once you sign an NBA deal, thats apparently when the NCAA is now saying you lose eligibility.  Although Im sure that will change again soon.

Honestly, moving to the hockey model makes some sense now for basketball.  Once you're drafted, you have three years to sign your pro deal, the pro team holds your rights.  But you can go to college to develop for those years so the pro team doesnt have to start the rookie contract until theyre older.  If you dont develop and the pro team doesnt sign a player after the 3 years, theyre then a free agent.

I've been saying this is the way for years, but I believe that NHL teams now hold a player's rights until four years after he was drafted (if drafted at 18). The scale slides if drafted older (three years for 19, two years for 20), so that it's essentially until a player is 22.

Quote from: MU82 on December 25, 2025, 11:10:15 PMWhen I run the NCAA, once an athlete turns 40, he or she will only have 4 years of eligibility left.

Ha!  I know my question was naive.  But also serious.  Can the NCAA universities eventually take back control of the situation and would they have any legal standing?

Musselman at USC signed guard Kam Woods on December 18th.  He played 4 years in D1 with 23 games at Troy State in 2020-21, 31 games at North Carolina A&T in 2022-23, 13 games for NC State in 2023-24, 30 games for Robert Morris in 2024-25 and he played 33 games in 2021-22 for Northwest Florida State when they won the NJCAA D1 national championship.  He played in 33 games in JUCO and has played 98 games in D1, including 1 game so far at USC.  He'll probably be another 150 plus career game player with the COVID, NJCAA eligibility. He has scored 1,600 career points to date and was not in school the first semester.  6 schools in 6 years.  The education focus we like to see for NCAA athletes. He did not appear in the NC State-Marquette NCAA tournament game. 

Kam Woods turned 24 years old on September 1 and is over 6 years older than Marquette incoming freshman Nash Walker, who turned 18 on September 27.

Incredible game in Denver.

Jokic and Murray would help MU. 

Quote from: brewcity77 on December 25, 2025, 07:56:53 PMHas Shaka said word for word "I'll never use the portal."? No. But all this is fantasy talk.

Go back and read the Marquette Magazine article. The Athletic puff piece. Or pretty much any article about Marquette and the portal where Shaka is quoted the last 3 years.

Public comments about prioritizing guys who've worn the jersey, about not recruiting over guys with the portal, about the NBA being the only place guys leave Marquette early for, all this has made it clear that Shaka has told all these guys he'll stand by them and RGV. I mean, he overhauled the Spirit Shop and website with RGV gear. Does anyone really believe he isn't telling recruits the stuff he's telling the New York Times?

He's done all of that already. He's given his recruits what he promised: a CHANCE to grow and preference over transfers. That doesn't mean they are guaranteed minutes or guaranteed spots in the rotation. Good Lord, can Lowery and Norman actually say they weren't given the full opportunity to grow and secure starting spots? There's nothing in "RGV" that guarantees minutes. Can you actually argue that Shaka's recruits haven't had more of an opportunity to succeed coming in as frosh than the vast majority of programs would provide? Do you think any recruit comes into a program thinking they'll continue to start and play major minutes if the program is going down the crapper? If recruits don't grow, Shaka has no need to apologize for letting them know that's the case. Shaka made some serious recruiting mistakes.  He will not be selling his soul if he tells players they will not get PT at MU in the future if that's an honest assessment.

After he leaves MU, Shaka will go to a top hoops school with a patient fanbase that doesn't mind 20-loss seasons. A chill, content fanbase such as Kentucky, UNC or Kansas, perhaps.

Quote from: WhiteTrash on December 25, 2025, 10:27:23 PMDoes that surpass Bronny's career totals? 

That Lakers team will not be a factor in the playoffs.  What does that mean for LeBron and Bronny? 

When I run the NCAA, once an athlete turns 40, he or she will only have 4 years of eligibility left.

Jared Goff has a 70 million cap hit this offseason

Quote from: Mu8891 on December 25, 2025, 10:22:48 PMElon - You think that Shaka will get
" a couple of years " to turn it around after this ( soon to be ) 20 loss season?? lol

So, they will be " better " by spring of 2028 ?

Prez Kimo is clueless. And Broeker has been a career No. 2 guy for a reason, but if this goes on thru next year, the real donors will crush them, the Fiserv will be a ghost town, and the BOT will have to go into witness protection.  They would be absolutely forced to can him if next year is a similar debacle.

It takes a special kind of arrogance to think any one person is bigger than the program and university.