2024-25 College Basketball Thread

[dixiehack]

I've never had much opinion either way about Tom Izzo but I'll ride with him after this. He doesn't attack it from a "woe is me more to do" standpoint. Talks about the value of loyalty and not recruiting over kids and not dividing his attention this month out of fairness to this year's team.

 

[sgreenwell]

I wonder how many players don't find any spots? There have to be some. Or a lot.

Not many. As you'd suspect, it's usually guys that are on the D1 fringes that might not find a spot. Like walk-ons get thrown into the transfer portal number sometimes.

 

[HanSenSE]

Before you diss the CBI, Cleveland State is in the title game.

 

[BYH 2: Electric Boogaloo]

Not many. As you'd suspect, it's usually guys that are on the D1 fringes that might not find a spot. Like walk-ons get thrown into the transfer portal number sometimes.

That was excellent and forced me to reconsider my initial idea that a lot of guys get swept undertow. That's unacceptable!!

 

[Webster]

A friend of mine has a son who is a starter at a middling team in a middling conference where he gets a couple of grand in NIL. He's got one more year of eligibility and was offered $100k and the use of a car to make what is a lateral move in a similar middling conference. The kid's ceiling is a maybe a tryout for a lower level European league. So he's taking the deal and leaving his teammates behind because he figures that he will be able to have some money banked once he gets a real job.

 

[micropolitan guy]

A friend of mine has a son who is a starter at a middling team in a middling conference where he gets a couple of grand in NIL. He's got one more year of eligibility and was offered $100k and the use of a car to make what is a lateral move in a similar middling conference. The kid's ceiling is a maybe a tryout for a lower level European league. So he's taking the deal and leaving his teammates behind because he figures that he will be able to have some money banked once he gets a real job.

Who is evaluating how much these guys should get paid?

 

[BYH 2: Electric Boogaloo]

A friend of mine has a son who is a starter at a middling team in a middling conference where he gets a couple of grand in NIL. He's got one more year of eligibility and was offered $100k and the use of a car to make what is a lateral move in a similar middling conference. The kid's ceiling is a maybe a tryout for a lower level European league. So he's taking the deal and leaving his teammates behind because he figures that he will be able to have some money banked once he gets a real job.

The CAA had a bunch of guys do that while jumping to power conferences this year. Most of them didn't perform nearly as well, but they are probably lower level Europe guys as well at the very best so the smart thing to do was grab the bag while it was there.

 

[I Should Coco]

A friend of mine has a son who is a starter at a middling team in a middling conference where he gets a couple of grand in NIL. He's got one more year of eligibility and was offered $100k and the use of a car to make what is a lateral move in a similar middling conference. The kid's ceiling is a maybe a tryout for a lower level European league. So he's taking the deal and leaving his teammates behind because he figures that he will be able to have some money banked once he gets a real job.

Don't blame him one bit.

heck, when I was in college 30 years ago if another student newspaper would have offered me a case of Hamburger Helper and a fresh pound of ground beef each week, I would have transferred immediately!

 

[Webster]

Who is evaluating how much these guys should get paid?

No idea — but his dad sure was shocked.

 

[2muchcoffeeman]

Before you diss the CBI, Cleveland State is in the title game.

Congratulation in advance, (vacated)!

 

[rtse11]

Depends on whom the reporter works for. If it's a certain chain, UConn will have them pissing down their leg like a Saudi who's been told America has invented cold fusion.

SID apologizes to reporter.
If I'm the reporter, I have a 2-word response. Then again I don't have to have access to Crazy As A Loon Coach in the future.

 

[Retired_Scribe]

This has come up before, but when my wife was in med school they did a class bracket. She had about as perfect a bracket as you can get, like seven of eight Elite Eight teams, all the Final Four, the champ. It was nuts. It was when Carmelo Anthony's Syracuse won. That was in the infancy of like ESPN pools (it existed), but they did it on paper. I am convinced if she was in something like that she would have been very high up the leaderboard.

All her friends were convinced I filled out the bracket with my sportswriter roots and all. Yeah, no. Never been that close to right (and she never has been since). I know a lot of luck goes into that stuff, but still not really sure how she did it.

My best bracket pool story. In 1985, we had female Hispanic intern. She picked Villanova to win it all because she liked the school's name. Of course.