Recent content by Snoopy

Common guys, dip into your 401k. Take out a 2nd mortgage. We can make some Russian kid we all learned about 3 days ago rich! Delaying retirement a few years will be so worth it if he gets us an extra weekend of basketball next March! \s

NIL is a visa issue. Can’t be a professional at anything if you come into the country on a student visa. But there are other types of visas. Apparently other schools have found more creative ways around the student visa restrictions. (Sign all the NIL gear while visiting home for the summer...

Interesting thing will be injuries. NBA can call up from the g league, make a trade, etc. College game teams are largely stuck with the roster they started the year with and if the blue bloods can’t stack their benches they look like Kansas in last years tournament.

Random thoughts on solutions: 1) players union, seems unlikely a bunch of spoiled teenagers who look only 1-4 years out will make this happen. It isn’t at all clear who that Union would negotiate with unless the NCAA allowed for direct payments from schools. Individual NIL providers are exempt...

The players would have to agree with it, catch-22 is there no player union representing all players to agree. Otherwise it is simply employers enforcing a salary limit, which is illegal under antitrust laws.

Yeah, I guess, I was thinking of just the $400K bonus. But add in the $900K salary rumors and other stuff and it is likely a 7 figure decision in the end for Antigua.

If the leaks and speculation here are to be believed, 6 figure sums are involved, which generally implies some big boy signatures to make anything happen. I suspect the big boys are out on the golf course working things out. After the round, their lawyers need to draw up papers. Papers need to...

They aren’t seniors, the game threads will be filled with fans venting on their mistakes. I’m optimistic for ‘24-‘25 and expect it be an entertaining season, but right now, really looking forward ‘25-‘26 right now as far as national relevance. Still very early though as far as both the portal...

The value of a player decreases as the minutes available decrease from school’s NIL budget perspective. Think we are going to see more and more parity as schools and players maximize NIL. Schools for the most part are going to have trouble paying guys on the bench what another school is willing...

Possibly Ace Wolf and Ty? There were some games this year where starting Ty seemed inexplicable to me. Let’s get down double digits in the first 4 minutes and sub him out inexplicable…

After 40 years of watching college basketball, I’m still surprised by the delusional fans who believe their team is the center of the universe. When every team’s fate can change on the whims of a 17 year old, a crazy mom, or a bad call by a ref or AD. And, 99.999999% of the people on the planet...

Agree, I expect that if you aren't top 50 out of HS, you do better financially over your 4-5 year college career if you go somewhere you can start and get 1-2 years of game experience vs going to a top 20 program, sitting on a bench, trying to get a few minutes a game. With the top 20 programs...

Good people can get stuck at bad companies. I always thought ESPN had a natural East Coast bias. In the post cable world where they are competing with Fox and others, I think it would be impossible for ESPN not to be biased toward the conferences they have long term agreements with. From a...

The ability to stream video varies. My United flight Saturday had it blocked. Fortunately got in well before game time. United supports streaming on “select flights” per their little ad trying to get you to sign up. Not yet obvious to me how to figure out in advance of one’s flight has it...

This, still struggling with the concept that B1G refs call the game more tightly than tournament refs seem to AND a tightly called game is beneficial to Illinois. But really the only players I worry about in an overly physical game are Hawkins, who can be flustered by non calls, and Ty, who...