2024-25 College Basketball Thread

[tapintoamerica]

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.

Any idea what his academic situation is? Is he about to graduate? Or will he be in limbo?

 

[Webster]

Any idea what his academic situation is? Is he about to graduate? Or will he be in limbo?

Limbo — he will be the equivalent of a semester of credits short and is trying to see if he can get credit for his classes at his new school and get his diploma from his old school. They told him that they think that will work. Otherwise, he is going to take and pay for remote summer school classes from his current place.

 

[Retired_Scribe]

The UConn SID apparently won't "ruin the life" of the guy who took the video of Dan Hurley showing and being an ass after the second-round loss.

Dan Hurley, though, continues to show and be an ass. He said this yesterday about the incident.

"Those are three great officials on that game, so, although I said something in the heat of the moment, in an area of the arena that in pretty much every game I've ever coached in college has been media-free," Hurley told reporters. "Past the tunnel, by the locker rooms, in the hallway where the coaches go, that's for the combatants, that's for the competitors. That's not for camera phones. Just relative to that, those were three great refs and Florida earned it.

"If I don't go off the rails at the end there, after that three-year run ended in excruciating fashion. ... If I don't have that emotional outburst there, probably all people are talking about is the run we've had, the amazing players."

He went on to try to remove the blame from SID Bobby Mullen.

"Bobby regrets, just like I regret the moments I've had. Obviously it's all my fault that Bobby got pulled into it," Hurley told reporters. "I set the whole thing in motion and I feel horrible. Obviously he could've handled dealing with the media person with the phone that took the video [differently], he could've obviously let it go. He should've been better trained for a situation like this, we've been in them all year.

"But Bobby's a soldier. We all fight like that for each other in our program, and sometimes we go a little too far. But Bobby's a great guy."

My reaction: Mullen said something he shouldn't have said in dealing with another professional. It was a "heat of the moment" comment. Hurley, three days after it happened, was not in the "heat of the moment." But he subtly ripped the media/reporter. Then he used the stupid analogy to war and battle... "combatants"... "Bobby's a soldier."

UConn, Hurley and his SID can get effed and then can eff all the way off.

Thanks for reading my TED Talk.

 

[poindexter]

Kevin Willard is openly chasing the Villanova job while prepping for the Sweet Sixteen.... but let's limit the mid-major kid who can get a 100k paycheck for transferring to USC.

 

[dixiehack]

Kevin Willard is openly chasing the Villanova job while prepping for the Sweet Sixteen

And allegedly skipped last night's team dinner because he's already chatting up guys in the portal.

 

[poindexter]

So what NCAA brainiac decided the transfer window should be mid/late March?

This is so stupid it has Trump fingerprints.

 

[swingline]

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!

Does just fine by itself. More Helper, Clark?

 

[dixiehack]

So what NCAA brainiac decided the transfer window should be mid/late March?

This is so stupid it has Trump fingerprints.

This is progress! Last year it was between Champ Week and the Round of 64.

 

[rtse11]

"Past the tunnel, by the locker rooms, in the hallway where the coaches go, that's for the combatants, that's for the competitors. That's not for camera phones."

The reporter had a credential, correct? There were security personnel checking credentials, correct? If he didn't have the proper credentials he wouldn't have been allowed there, correct?
...
And, I'm pretty sure we could still see the arena bleachers from the video. It wasn't like the reporter followed Hurley down the hallway to the lockerrooms.

Kudos to the officials who whacked and ran McCaffrey in the Big Ten tournament. Like Hurley, he's a bully. Big East refs need to grow some stones.

 

[dixiehack]

Shoot last year someone got a shot of Nate Oats in Spokane sticking his head in the Yale locker room after they had just beaten Auburn. That was way further away from the floor and no one raised a stink.

 

[BTExpress]

I first read that as "someone got shot when Nate Oats was in Spokane . . . "

Sounded normal.

 

[BYH 2: Electric Boogaloo]

Kevin Willard is openly chasing the Villanova job while prepping for the Sweet Sixteen.... but let's limit the mid-major kid who can get a 100k paycheck for transferring to USC.

They don't play for the love of the game anymore and it's ruined sports for me!