NCAA just cleared a G league player and ruled him eligible to play college ball. The death cry of college basketball intensifies
Pros back to college!!
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If you can't see where this leads I don't know what to tell you
we've finally emerged from the dark ages of college basketball that we've had for the last 25 years. we had over a decade of the best players going pro, and more than a decade dealing with super freshman. college basketball was sloppy, turnover ridden, and dependent on just having the right amount of the top 5 freshman. NIL has taken us back to early 90s and 80s college basketball where junior and senior laden teams rule. actual basketball can be played again. A player like wall, davis, or cooper can still make an impact. but its much harder now. we are at the point now that i would say that if you aren't a top 10 freshman, the top 50 transfers are likely all better. enjoy it, and don't feel bad for the schools with billon dollar tv contracts. they'll live.
What is college basketball if it devolves into a game for pros who think they can get a better deal are allowed to dominate it, because that's where all this leads and worse
He played for G league Ignite, not a player who was drafted and returned to college.
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We’ve just opened the door to changing the college game completely. I expect many more changes as the old rules are challenged.
Players will soon become employees instead of students which will eliminate any NCAA oversight or authority. There will be no limit on salary or benefits or no 4 year eligibility rules.
This won’t be a good thing for the fans.
It will just be a matter of time before there will be money awarded to players on teams that reach the Final Four … playing for the name on the jersey will become increasingly meaningless. Fans will be rooting for the franchise of pros, not a college team. I can see tougher scheduling, though, as fans will not want to pay big $$$ for tickets to the lesser games.
I don’t even follow this crap anymore. After Tennessee trying to bastardize college sports and the courts and lawyers ruining America long ago, I just stopped following. We’ve entered a judicial supremacy in this country and it will erode everything away. The forefathers never imagined a world where a former president would ever claim “it depends on what the definition of is, is”. They’ll find a way to be corrupt one way or the other.
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I don't care about the rules anymore. If it's allowed do it. I just want to win and win big.
when UK is allowed to press all over the floor without hand checks being called fouls, then it becomes a real game to me. The 3 point shot does nothing for the total game of offense and defense and is nothing but a gimmick
I have actually had that dream seeing those two gain eligibility, come back to Kentucky, and lead the Cats to multiple National Championships haha
Ok guess I’m wrong I could have swore his team had old college players from almost ten years ago on it. Didn’t think they would be playing for free ten years after they graduated.
I threw a little jelly roll in there. I can be lame douchy I admit it.
honestly still not sure what we’re talking about. Jelly?
News flash… “playing for the name on the front of the jersey” is a nice cliche that fans use, but has become increasingly meaningless for the players since the turn of the century.
I was being lazy and not looking up how to spell his name. Andrea the euro big we got. I was thinking he played professional ball overseas. I am probably wrong tho. And I am good with lame douchy lol
You're not wrong. I believe he played for Mega (or a team similar to that) and it was a mid to high level pro league.
Edited to add that he played for Mega Superbet for the last two years (a Serbian owned professional team that mostly uses Croatian players).
Edited to add that he played for Mega Superbet for the last two years (a Serbian owned professional team that mostly uses Croatian players).
I’m not so sure you can call that league professional. It was set up as a farm system alternative to college. It was mostly for kids who couldn’t read and write after graduation in our wonderful public schools system.
Y’all NIL me some money and I’ll go be an enforcer. Somebody get a hot hand on the other team? Put me in coach!
It is not only the fans, it seems to be an integral part of CMP’s coaching mantra, even if knowingly unreasonable. Playing for the jersey and BBN are the same thing, in my opinion.
Death cry? Dead stuff don’t cry. The old college basketball division 1 died with NIL and the transfer portal. Kentucky was the indisputable all time leader in that division. Now that is nothing but etching on a cold granite slab. Dead bleached bones don’t make a single sound.
Now we have a semi-pro league spraying incredible sums of money without even so much as a contract.
Win what? The College basketball championship, what will that term even mean. It won't be college anymore just semi pro basketball. When only a paycheck instead of the name on the jersey really mastering will the BBN even care. Some will but many, myself included will not. The long great history of Kentucky basketball will slowly wither away. Hide and watch