How Shaka Can Save This Season

[Heisenberg]

Pick up a few NBA cast aways before the new year and we can still make the Tourney!
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Breaking today...

Former Detroit Pistons second-round pick James Nnaji has enrolled at Baylor and is immediately eligible to play for the Bears' men's basketball team, Jonathan Givony reports -- a significant development and unprecedented path to college basketball.


https://www.cbssports.com/college-basketball/news/baylor-former-nba-draft-pick-james-nnaji/

[Heisenberg]

Every sport will do this.

Football will recruit the practice squads and Canadian League

Baseball will recruit the minor league

Basketball will recruit Europe and the summer leagues

[Jay Bee]

Every sport will do this.

Football will recruit the practice squads and Canadian League

Baseball will recruit the minor league

Basketball will recruit Europe and the summer leagues

What will AAPL do?

[wadesworld]

Thanks.

https://www.muscoop.com/index.php?topic=67371.msg1780071#msg1780071

[Heisenberg]

Who will be the 1st two way contract @NBA player with full @ncaa eligibility left to leave an NBA franchise to enroll in College and play for a significant salary increase and have numerous years to play? Drafted or not. It makes no difference. It's coming. Nnaji was in KAT trade

https://x.com/tomcrean/status/2003933680675492113?s=46

[MarquetteMike1977]

Pick up a few NBA cast aways before the new year and we can still make the Tourney!
—-
Breaking today...

Former Detroit Pistons second-round pick James Nnaji has enrolled at Baylor and is immediately eligible to play for the Bears' men's basketball team, Jonathan Givony reports -- a significant development and unprecedented path to college basketball.


https://www.cbssports.com/college-basketball/news/baylor-former-nba-draft-pick-james-nnaji/

Thank You. Marquette can definitely use this.

[Warrior of Law]

In a slightly more realistic scenario, UW pulled the redshirt off a player today. Waiting 4-5 years for a player to be productive isn't going to fly anymore.

[dgies9156]

Win

[Heisenberg]

Been reading that the James Nnaji/Baylor decision is going to totally disrupt the NBA draft in June. And this might only be the beginning.

Now EVERY player can hire an agent, submit for the draft, get drafted (or sign as a free agent), play in the summer league, sign a contract, and if they are unable to make the active 15 man active NBA roster, return to school in the fall and play for their college team (or another team if they went into the portal).

They need to sign up for classes at the beginning of the fall semester to maintain their eligibility as a "student." (Note, I did not say go to class.)

And coming next is when NBA players can return to college.

This will effectively end recruiting blue-chip/five-star players. They will be drafted whenever they show the potential (in the case of a Cooper Flagg, maybe before they finish high school). With that "two-way" eligibility allowed, the NBA can send its drafted prospects back to college (where the college will pay them with NIL money) to get better while maintaining their rights.

Of course, the risk is the NBA team yanking the player mid-season because they need them. Imagine if Cooper Flagg were drafted, sent to Duke, and after 10 or so games, the NBA team had seen enough and "called him up?"  If he then struggled in the association, can they "send him down" in time to play Carolina later in the season?

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It has been argued that Shaka's bigger problem is not in unwillingness to use the portal but his unwillingness to deal with agents. He is losing out on blue-chip recruits because of it.

If the Bucks decide to use MU to season their players (so they are close by for team executives and coaches to watch them in person), Shaka is going to have to deal with agents.

[wadesworld]

Been reading that the James Nnaji/Baylor decision is going to totally disrupt the NBA draft in June. And this might only be the beginning.

Now EVERY player can hire an agent, submit for the draft, get drafted (or sign as a free agent), play in the summer league, sign a contract, and if they are unable to make the active 15 man active NBA roster, return to school in the fall and play for their college team (or another team if they went into the portal).

They need to sign up for classes at the beginning of the fall semester to maintain their eligibility as a "student." (Note, I did not say go to class.)

And coming next is when NBA players can return to college.

This will effectively end recruiting blue-chip/five-star players. They will be drafted whenever they show the potential (in the case of a Cooper Flagg, maybe before they finish high school). With that "two-way" eligibility allowed, the NBA can send its drafted prospects back to college (where the college will pay them with NIL money) to get better while maintaining their rights.

Of course, the risk is the NBA team yanking the player mid-season because they need them. Imagine if Cooper Flagg were drafted, sent to Duke, and after 10 or so games, the NBA team had seen enough and "called him up?"  If he then struggled in the association, can they "send him down" in time to play Carolina later in the season?

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It has been argued that Shaka's bigger problem is not in unwillingness to use the portal but his unwillingness to deal with agents. He is losing out on blue-chip recruits because of it.

If the Bucks decide to use MU to season their players (so they are close by for team executives and coaches to watch them in person), Shaka is going to have to deal with agents.

You've had a way of predicting things like these in the past. I'm buying it.

[JTJ3]

Nnaji 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.

[MU82]

Don't worry, NCAA leaders will make things less crazy again soon. If not them, Congress.

Like Gard, they always get it done.

[Jockey]

You've had a way of predicting things like these in the past. I'm buying it.

He's not as crazy as he sounds      

[Stretchdeltsig]

Play kids who can shoot threes, free throws and finish at the rim. Kids that can't score should be benched.

[GB Warrior]

I think we should recruit kids who can score more than the other team

[dpucane]

Can Shaka grow a few of these guys?

https://x.com/ncaabuzzerbters/status/2004278483636432930?s=46

[dpucane]

I'm extremely out on Shaka but if he drinks Underwood's milkshake and puts out a lineup of

Topic
Rokas
Djurisic
Bogoljub
Rocco

I'm so back

[Pakuni]

Nnaji 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.

[muwarrior69]

Pick up a few NBA cast aways before the new year and we can still make the Tourney!
—-
Breaking today...

Former Detroit Pistons second-round pick James Nnaji has enrolled at Baylor and is immediately eligible to play for the Bears' men's basketball team, Jonathan Givony reports -- a significant development and unprecedented path to college basketball.


https://www.cbssports.com/college-basketball/news/baylor-former-nba-draft-pick-james-nnaji/

Did Baylor have an opening or did they cut someone from the squad?

[wisblue]

This is the latest step toward destroying my interest in major college basketball.

[Heisenberg]

Fran Fraschilla today ...
(Reads like a message to Shaka)

If you want stay in step as a college coach in the "new normal," you will need to conform to survive:

1. Academic requirements & graduate rates mean nothing to most families of star athletes. It's about the money.

2. Accept that agents now run college basketball. And, unlike NBA certified agents, many are clueless at best & shysters at worst. Still have to deal with them.

3. Evaluation of high school & transfer portal talent is at all-time low. These decisions are torpedoing even great programs. So hire people who know hoops.

4. You have to be willing to cut players who can't play. Do you want to feed their family or your family?

5. Cultivate "sugar daddies" for your program. But don't have them paying for bad evaluations. These are smart business people. You'll be cooked.

6. Hire an NBA guy that knows the international market (most of you already behind) or G League talent.

7. Study new world of NIL insurance so you are protected against liability when the athlete sues. You'll also need to determine how to claw back funds when player is injured for extended period of time.

8. Don't worry about tampering. That's out the window too.

Understand that, while some say college basketball is at it best right now, there will be unintended consequences. Some of it is good, some bad & much, an overcorrection. Anyone who thinks they know where this ends, especially with non-existent leadership at the top of the sport, is a fool.

https://x.com/franfraschilla/status/2004594891200893296?s=46

[Billy Hoyle]

Did Baylor have an opening or did they cut someone from the squad?

They would have to been under 15. Once rosters are set for the first game there is no replacing players. But, teams can add if they are under 15.

Unfortunately, Marquette is not

[dgies9156]

Of course, the risk is the NBA team yanking the player mid-season because they need them. Imagine if Cooper Flagg were drafted, sent to Duke, and after 10 or so games, the NBA team had seen enough and "called him up?"  If he then struggled in the association, can they "send him down" in time to play Carolina later in the season?

Gee, we have never seen that at Marquette, now have we?