Official Running NCAA/March Madness thread

Take the under. Hell, it may be under 100.

 

Only 24 scholarship players, max of 12 per team.

Only six to play pro? The others can pay back that $40K a year out-of-state Virginia/Texas tuition/R&B for their free education while the classmates they don't even mingle with incurred thousands of dollars of student debt.

Contracts for this year's tournament were signed when these guys were in 10th grade. They didn't earn the NCAA anything, the money was already guaranteed.

 

It’s really not costing TT or UVA a nickel in tuition. Are there 3 or 4 students who didn’t get admitted because 3-4 players got scholarships? Is the university forgoing that tuition payment?

 

Maybe now the Hall of Fame can put Mulkey in.

 

Ugly end of the game by ND. How don’t you use your foul there and regardless switch? They really didn’t have a play at the end and got bailed out by a (good) call on a tough shot.

 

Did this seem like a smart take when you typed it out?

 

That last point is complete bullshit. None of their predecessors got paid, either. The rest is just a really twisted view of how college sports works. A multi-billion dollar enterprise that stiffs the people without whom the enterprise ceases to exist. The athletes are not just other students. They're rainmakers. You can argue that college sports shouldn't offer scholarships and just be an extracurricular activity. That would be a valid position logically. But yours is the usual straddle. I like the status quo, therefore it must be moral as well as pleasing to me.

 

Back when players stayed a full four years or even three - I'd buy the argument that the players deserved a cut. But college teams are - for the most part - players not good enough - or eligible - for the NBA. And I'd argue a good half of the one and done players who are drafted, wouldn't be if they played two or three more years and scouts were able to find the holes in their games.

Glad for that Baylor player who got hurt.

 

Shouldn't have been a doubt. But now ... three titles - all of them seven years apart.

That's not one force-of-nature player. That's three distinctly different teams with no common links outside the school and coaching staff.

 

People tie themselves into the strangest knots trying to justify getting rich off of unpaid labor.

 

Yes. Did yours?

Unpaid labor? Tell me that when you start writing college checks for your children.