Running 2023-24 NCAA Basketball Thread

So would both sides be bound by the full scholarship? The point of opening transfers was to put players on nearly equal footing. If the school can not extend the scholarship, the player can leave without penalty.

 

Yes, both sides would be bound to it, but terms would be agreed ahead of it.

In other words, like a contract. (Don't know how binding those Pac-12 multi-year scholies were. Obviously not very.)

As for the point in opening transfers? NCAA and schools had no choice because they were deservedly getting their asses handed to them in court for putting a restriction on movement that no other part of the student body is subject to.

The only way to "limit the portal" and even remotely put the toothpaste back in the tube is for both parties to have something that is of mutual interest to them.

Now, would many athletes want a multi-year scholie and be bound to it? Some, but certainly not all. Many athletes like the flexibility of one-year scholies too.

Point is, very few schools even pursue the option of a binding multi-year scholarship because That's Not The Way It's Been and, the unspoken truth that is reality for all of this ... they like the portal too.

 

The pac-12 scholarship guarantee was binding on the institution, not the athlete. As long as you were eligible, the scholarship had to be renewed. You couldn't be run off for nonperformance.

Schools still found ways to encourage players to leave if it was obvious they were not going to play.

 

I'm as impressed as the next guy, but ... really?

 

As a diehard, lifelong Iowa fanatic, gotta say I agree, Shotty.

 

Same reason ESPN has been dry-humping the Lakers all year - if you can make a buck on it - leave your journalism standards at the front door.

 

Wright's feature, which is excellent, will, with photos, take up about 85% of that.

 

Only 85 percent?

 

This is kind of what the magazine publishing industry is now as a whole. Look at the racks at Target or CVS or wherever, and pretty much the only thing they sell now is a 50 to 100-page booklet for $10 to $20 devoted to one subject - Super Mario Bros., Taylor Swift, The Rolling Stones, Minecraft, etc. I guess it's kind of good that this ESPN one seemingly has some original content, because for a lot of them they clearly just rip and repackage publicly available information from Wikipedia and other sources.

 

Of course, it's quite possible Clark won't even make the Final Four. . . .

 

Surprised this wasn't posted earlier but maybe I missed it. Maybe it's just sarcasm. Can't imagine she would do well.

Caitlin Clark offered 'pathbreaking' $5M contract by Ice Cube's BIG3 basketball league