Seeing Virginia and the Cheaters ranked in the top twenty-five make me wonder about the writers predictions.
GoDuke!
https://www.sportingnews.com/us/ncaa...38isgvw0j3eq0q
Mike DeCourcy of The Sporting News has Duke at #3
Seeing Virginia and the Cheaters ranked in the top twenty-five make me wonder about the writers predictions.
GoDuke!
not sure what the point is of these rankings (OK, I do, it's clicks) when so many rosters are not yet set.
Michigan State will be a top 5 team
I am confident UNC will find enough talent for a tournament team. Much less sure about UVA.
It's interesting to read. I'm reading it. They've got me because I'm a sucker.
The article is not up to DeCourcy’s usual standards. Flip is almost certain to go and Lively is only likely?
https://heatcheckcbb.com/college-bas...023-24-season/
Heatcheckcbb.com also has Duke at #3.
Not sure why the hate on Miami and LifeWallet. Lots and lots of programs, including ours, include guys who are getting paid plenty in NIL. Miami's guy is just more open about it. To me, that's a good thing. I think everyone needs to get off their high horse about NIL. We're in it. Everyone is in it. It's the new reality, like it or not.
There are a lot of stones being thrown at other programs right now that I don't quite understand.
In theory NIL was allowed under the rationale that the players should be able to keep what they earned off their own N, I & L. That is not the same as players getting paid due to booster bidding wars. The former is based on the marketing value of the player while the latter is based on the wealth and generosity of team boosters.
Those are two very different routes of $ going to players. They differ in their rationales and justifications, they have different ethical issues and have different effects on the bball landscape. I think the differences are largely ignored because everone expects the reality will be the rich booster model dominating, even when it is sold as a “player getting to keep what he/she earned” model.
Also I think the difference is being swept under the rug because the NCAA has no stomach to return to policing the whole kit and caboodle.
Nigel Pack needs to get an NIL deal with ShoeWallet
Don't disagree with your opinions, but the facts are different. NIL's "rationale" was that it was shoved down the throat of the NCAA teams by state governments allowing college athletes to do endorsements.
Second, another poster referred to a Supreme Court decision allowing athletes to unionize. Actually the Supreme Court decision allowed athletes to receive $6 thou or so in other reimbursements. It was the NLRB that allowed scholarship athletes to organize at, I believe, Northwestern. The catch here is that the Natl. Labor Relations Board has zero, zip, nada say about state employees, so the ruling could be applied only to private universities and not to Bama, Texas, Ohio State or Carolina.
I am sure others will correct me, if necessary.
The NCAA completely ignored this issue for decades. They could have put a reasonable system in place to allow for some level of compensation. Instead they sat on their hands and waited for court cases to move the needle.
It's a result of incompetence and a lack of spine.
Is it awkward? Sure. Is it fair? Who knows. Is it WAY overdue? Absolutely.
The NCAA created this hot mess and now lacks the capacity to address it. Too bad, so sad.