Quick question about Robert Jackson

[GGGG]

What does this even mean.  Take a little extra meth this AM?

Yeah, that is a little random. 

But I will say this about one recruit, Joe Wolf.  MU did not get him, he visited 2 schools, the other North Carolina.

[Henry Sugar]

Maybe I am right, Maybe I am wrong during that period, lack of knowledge, no, I have knowledge, alumni and good
friends can be friends of the program.  I will say this about one recruit, Sam Bowie.  MU did not get him, he visited
2 schools, the other Kentucky.

I am really enjoying your random
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[🏀]

use of the Return key.  Paragraph break?  don't mind
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Nice.

[BCHoopster]

I am really enjoying your random
use of the Return key.  Paragraph break?  don't mind
if I do.

Never learned anything at college, stated earlier I was probably on meth, the business school
school did not help my writing skills, oh well.

[ringout]

A UK sweatshirt?  Heavens no.  Kids with no fathers who grew borderline homeless, turning to someone who may put them in (legal) situations, and get them connected (legally and within rules) to help them and their families rich beyond their dreams, playing a game they love and invested tens of thousands of hours in.  Heavens no.

Reinko,

I won't go as far as BCHoopster, but you don't think WWW is just helping poor unfortunate kids, do you?

[BCHoopster]

He probably is helping poor kids, just happens they are great
ballplayers!

[reinko]

Reinko,

I won't go as far as BCHoopster, but you don't think WWW is just helping poor unfortunate kids, do you?

Of course not, I am not that naive.  He is helping himself first and foremost, but as a by-product, he is having a direct impact on many of these kids.  Yes. 

If he could make millions of dollars setting up tutoring camps and helping kids get academic scholarships to college, by introducing them to admissions officer, deans, I imagine he would explore that too. 

WWW is about himself first (from everything I have read), but you can't argue, because the field he is in, he will continue to have to dramatic (hopefully, largely positive) impacts on the lives of young men, who predominantly grew up in single parent and low income households.

[ringout]

Of course not, I am not that naive.  He is helping himself first and foremost, but as a by-product, he is having a direct impact on many of these kids.  Yes. 

If he could make millions of dollars setting up tutoring camps and helping kids get academic scholarships to college, by introducing them to admissions officer, deans, I imagine he would explore that too. 

WWW is about himself first (from everything I have read), but you can't argue, because the field he is in, he will continue to have to dramatic (hopefully, largely positive) impacts on the lives of young men, who predominantly grew up in single parent and low income households.

Cool.  Did not want to assume either way.  I could have worded it coming from the positive I suppose. 

Not sure if he thinks of positive impact, but I am getting cynical in my old age.  Maybe he does.

[Dawson Rental]

Do you think they paid that one kid from Racine to go to Oregon too?  What ever happened to him??

I heard that he got an offer for double the money from elsewhere.

[kryza]

I might be way off the charts here...but I say who cares? Pay these kids (or give them gifts). They work extremely hard and make ridiculous amounts of money for their schools.

If bball players don't have time to get jobs during school, why shouldn't they get paid for their hard work?

[Pakuni]

I might be way off the charts here...but I say who cares? Pay these kids (or give them gifts). They work extremely hard and make ridiculous amounts of money for their schools.

If bball players don't have time to get jobs during school, why shouldn't they get paid for their hard work?

They do get paid .... with a college education, related expenses (i.e. fees and books), housing, meals, top-notch professional training and health care worth well into the six figures over four years.
Yes, some do make money for their schools. And for the most part, that money goes to fund other athletics programs that are federally mandated, but are huge financial drains on the schools. Even with football and basketball money, the large majority of athletic departments operate in the red.
Then there's the little matter of Title IX which, chances are, would mean that if schools start paying men's basketball players $1,000 a month, they'd have to do the same for the girl's soccer team, the field hockey team, the wrestlers, etc. Which, for obvious reasons, would be unsustainable at 95 percent of the programs out there.

[Skitch]

I heard that Marquette offered JP Tokoto a lifetime pass at Angelo's and after they closed he decided on North Carolina.  Its a dirty dirty business.  (college basketball....not Angelo's)

[MarquetteDano]

I might be way off the charts here...but I say who cares? Pay these kids (or give them gifts). They work extremely hard and make ridiculous amounts of money for their schools.

If bball players don't have time to get jobs during school, why shouldn't they get paid for their hard work?

Or, get rid of the NBA rule stating you must be one year out of high school.  Then they are more than welcome to pursue a paid carreer.  Even now they are free to go to Europe and earn money.  No one has a gun to their head making them go to schoool for a year.