College Basketball Thread 2018

They're offering select contracts. You'll recall the basketball commission headed by Condi Rice said clearly it wants out of this weird one-and-done relationship with the NBA. Silver could not convince the union to go to 20, and NBA teams simply don't want to carry these kids on the roster. So they'll go to hoops purgatory and hope it works out.

I'm all for the NBA starting much younger with prospects. 13, 14. Get em then.

 

Well, first, college basketball doesn't really perform that function. Not very well for the one-and-dones, anyway. 9 months and, what, 35 games?

Let's uncouple the money. Works for me. It's worth noting the NCAA fought conference TV contracts and lost in SCOTUS in the 80s. The NCAA tried, at least, to stem the tide.

 

It has been raised. And continues to rise.

When I went to school, Mike Krzyzewski's players were earning scholarships worth $4,230 a year. Zion Williamson's is worth more than $50,000.

That's a far higher increase than the REAL minimum wage.

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If they point shave, and I’m not in on it.

 

Shouldn’t he have the cash option, not take any classes and get paid to wear adidas. With his adidas money he can rent a nice apartment in Durham and a driver to take him to practice.

 

He does have the cash option - outside of the NCAA.

 

Let's give this a look through the other side of the scope.

Say the NCAA allowed NIL but, in doing so, required any athlete choosing the NCAA to sign a three-year NIL agreement. That is, Athlete A can't go to a competing basketball entity - the NBA, Europe, anywhere - get NIL right there. The school owns it for 3 years. Player gets plenty of money...if he stays.

 

IF he paid his own way onto Duke, and was a walk-on and received no assistance from the University, he still could NOT play NCAA athletics if he earned any money playing sports or in relation to sports. Let Adidas pay him $400,000.00 to wear Adidas, promote the company and do promotions. And Zion can pay his own way to college. But not play any intercollegiate athletic sport.

 

The salary cap was negotiated between the league and the union. LeBron is also free to earn outside income. Unless you want college athletes to unionize and be free to earn outside
income, your comparison is not equivalent.

 

Nope. NCAA permits baseball players to get drafted out of high school and still play as long as they don’t sign. Basketball players lose eligibility once they declare for the draft and din’t renounce it by a certain deadline. If they don’t get drafted, they’re out of luck.

 

Adidas can pay Williamson that money now.

 

Not if he plays and if he doesn’t why pay him ?