Game Thread: Villanova

[HallGuy2323]

The only way out of this is to collectively bargain which would prob expose how much money certain s school actually make and destroy most other college sports

Or you’ll have your pro football and basketball teams and schools who operate like old college athletics for other sports

The only other part is the random nature of college basketball..will certain alumni want to keep spending money when the outcome is determined by a Russian roulette single elimination tournament

Your 3rd paragraph is what I hope. It’s insane to think that Rutgers women’s soccer and softball has to travel to California to play conference games. I’m sure things like that can’t help the major deficit they have.

 

[SHUSource]

I get it.

But it’s 1.5m for a Pg who can shoot
It’s 1.5m for a 2G who can shoot
It’s 1.5m for a PF who is supposed to be a PF
It’s 2m to keep Hines

before you know it you need $10m to have a starting 5 with a few guys coming off the bench.

oh wait…that’s what Pitino already said every BE team needs to spend to compete.

And I don’t want to hear it from those that say that was the way it was back in the day. No roster was getting $10m under the table.

Either you have an alumni base that wants to fund your sports program on a year to year basis or you don’t

Just to underscore the point, top programs used to be able to get away with buying a top kid an Escalade or whatever vehicle had currency at the time. Now top guys are making $5 million-plus, making them higher-paid employees of their universities than their last two presidents combined. There is NO comparison between the old way of doing things and what we have now.

 

[PhishingPirate088]

Just to underscore the point, top programs used to be able to get away with buying a top kid an Escalade or whatever vehicle had currency at the time. Now top guys are making $5 million-plus, making them higher-paid employees of their universities than their last two presidents combined. There is NO comparison between the old way of doing things and what we have now.

So, what were we doing or paying?

 

[SHUSource]

So, what were we doing or paying?

I don't know. But we have had respected posters here imply that something was being exchanged for the services of players during some of our better runs, which seems likely. But I have no idea.