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The fact that so many players are leaving schools like Duke must also mean that they're not convinced their coach knows what he's doing. Hurley can sell the players already there on the fact that the staff has built a system both on offense and defense, and that this system is tailored to your...

That has always been there though. Preferred walk-ons for football have always been allowed. The rule has been enforced in bball.

People were straight up giving points. 12 straight games in 2 tourneys. 12 straight winners.

Did you watch the Jordan Classic? This kid is a stud? He's built like a brickhouse. He's not going to be intimidated taking it to the rim. Kid is huge.

There used to be an NCAA rule about this. If a player is recruited he has to count against the 13 scholarships no matter how his scholarship is paid. Any contact between a coach and player effectively puts him in this category. The only way to overcome this would be to be admitted into the...

All the insurance needs to do is play both sides. Take the money from Vegas by betting on UConn.

The bigger question: with the A&M campus roiled by 3 incredible scandals in the last 12 months, will A&M be able to continue recruiting players from all backgrounds? Even while a chunk of its students and alums are telling some kids to reconsider enrolling there? I suppose these things get...

100% nonsense. The move to drop Nebraska from the AAU was made in committee one year prior Nebraska being booted from the AAU. The heads of that committee were the Michigan President, with one other B1G President as the 2nd. They knew they were tossing Nebraska from the AAU BEFORE Nebraska...

"The SEC didn't need the same sort of lock-in as the ACC because when you are on the top of the financial pyramid, there's little or no risk of parties exiting."

They have huge financial resources in the B1G but Sports also has half a billion in loans on recent facilities, and who even knows about the Big House and its needs. The school is not going to funnel a lot of that extra money to sports when it shells out $30-$40m a year on interest payments.

Exactly. The SEC top dogs will always reserve the right to leave Vanderbilt and Mississippi St and Missouri behind.

The best possible outcome for the school and the program is for both the men's and women's programs to be sought after once schools receive units for tournament play that are commensurate with what the TV networks are paying. In other words, there's no reason why the NCAA uses basketball as...

Williams was referring to Title 9. But I don't know why we're even having this discussion when the NCAA was sued by states that had passed laws allowing students to receive NIL, and the NCAA relented. That's how NIL came to be in the first place. It's weird that we're speculating on whether...

Picking this up again because of a discussion on the basketball board about AAU and how it's hurting sports like baseball and basketball: If you look at men's soccer and the USMNT, you'll see that 95% of the team and many of those playing in Europe all trained under the DA (Development Academy)...

He needs to play in a similar style offense. He has the athleticism and the shooting down, but it was his handle that betrayed him multiple times. Just realized he was from Xanthi, Greece; and given his name, no doubt the grandson of Greek speaking refugees / resettlement from Turkey.

But... the NCAA was sued by states for imposing a rule against state law.

DeAndre Daniels against Iowa State. 10-15 shooting, 27 points, 10 rebounds, 2 block, 81-76 win. 50 points in the second half for UConn. Daniels was incredibly hot in the second half, 7 straight outside shots.

Here's an underrated great performance: Shabazz versus Villanova in the tournament: 9 of 13, 4-8 from 3. 3 assists and 2 steals. 25 points.

Damn, I thought we blew OSU out that day.

Don't they have agents these days as high schoolers?

Didn't Earl Kelley beat Syracuse with a buzzer beater in 1985? I seem to remember he filled up the stat sheet that night. I was at the game, but there are no game logs for 80s games on the sports reference site.

What are you going to do? Organize a tournament of also-rans? People underestimate the shortness of American attention spans. There will be a bunch of editorials written, a bunch of people whining about the fact that UConn has been doen wrong, and then they'll go on their merry way knowing...

Jalen Adams 34 at Oklahoma St Ben Gordon 36 v. Alabama in tournament. They shot 60% from the field and 3s and couldn't be stopped. Caron's performance stands out.

https://www.espn.com/college-sports/story/_/id/39967961/virginia-law-allows-schools-pay-athletes-nil Universities shamelessly shot themselves in the foot by trying to pretend the $6k - $10k stipends they were giving were there to support athletes. Then congress passed a law forcing schools to...

Maybe they're inconsistent, but last 2 times I went (Nov and Dec) it was just like the old days. I even saw Rey in there one of those times. It's the same guy who has been making pizza there for over 30 years.

On the other hand, Hurley's tenure year (even if it's a decade) will be shorter than the the time for any huge changes to kick in. People are targeting 2032 year as the year the music stops. Jay Bilas frequently said last month that, from what he's heard, schools like UConn will be on the...

Not from their tourney performance though.

I expect to see Stewart starting and with an improved outside shot, I expect to see him as a first rounder in next year's draft. The kid is explosive and at points in the tournament, you could see him physically imposing his will on the opponent. Castle is gone. Now, other than Stewart, we...

I mean, why not just make them team employees.

That was never happening before, but the national degree rate for all students is around 60% anyway. If you're transferring beyond your freshman year, I'm assuming you're almost certainly not going to get a degree. Your eligibility will run out long before you get one. So will your funding. It...

People dissuade and inhibit regular students from transferring all the time. For one, credits infrequently transfer over, which is a form of inhibiting them, and two, the cost and extra classes creates a setback for them. The only difference is when a regular student is a freshman, and in that...

100% correct, it's not happening unless they already have a degree and come in as grad students.

You can't have a degree program though without a field, and there is no field in sports currently, and none will pop up overnight. You'll actually need some body of work, whether in books, exercise, training, something, anything, that would constitute a field. And the person offering these...

What does that have to do with anything?

I fully expect Samson to apply for a 5th redshirt year based on his injury. We may have our centers for the next 2 years