Illinois Hoops Recruiting Thread
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I assumed he meant Bass and Storr.
sacraig
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The Big Ten only considers adding schools who are members of the AAU. None of the three schools mentioned are AAU members. Their academics are not up to par with existing Big Ten schools. Interestingly, Nebraska is no longer a member of the AAU but was when they were admitted.
This is in addition to the fact that those schools don't add enough TV sets to move the needle. Houston is a huge market but UH is small potatoes compared to UT and TAMU.
The Galloping Ghost
- Washington, DC
he’s still not getting any love on mock drafts for next year either- so if he ends up making over $1M in NIL this year we may even have him for another season.
If he can make more in college than as a late second round pick or G-league, it has to be appealing to stay for guys like him that are superstars in college
For his sake, I hope he dominates this year, shows some shooting range and becomes a lottery pick, but if he doesn’t - it would be awesome to have him another year
Agreed. Harris looks like a stud (solely from his highlights - of which there are a lot available).
sacraig
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Yeah I mean I only meant once he withdrew from the draft. I have no doubts in my mind that he was sincerely exploring the draft, I meant the transfer portal
This is why we, as fans, should do what we can to make it worth his while to stick around. If Kofi is putting out gear this season, I'm buying.
OK, I think I got this. If Ayo the NBA professional signs a two-way deal, Kofi the amateur may end up making more than him ... right?
I think we really need to stop thinking of athletes in multi-billion dollar sports leagues as amateurs.
Homecoming 2019
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A lot of people on here are missing the point that Ayo can make money off of his name too, since ya know he's a professional and all. I guarantee he sells a large chunk of jerseys.
Correct- NBA min salary this year is about $920K a 2 way deal would be worth half that for the season. So top college players are likely to earn more than that, but it will be interesting to see. Alabama’s QB certainly will, but that is football
illininutt
- Tinley Park
What about Illinois?
“No one here is taking unreasonable potshots at the kid” is not true. The attacks on an 18 year old who wants to play for my school is disheartening to me (not referring to you, sacraig). Now all of the blog tough guys can post gifs of me crying since that is what we do here nowadays. I will sign off until football season.
Tre Holloman chose MSU. He was one I would have loved to see in orange and blue.
Pretty sure you can’t but “gear” of his with Illini on it in order for him to profit.
Last year had special rules for the 2-way contracts. They paid 1/2 of the NBA minimum. This is not true in general. The pay cap on a two way contract appears to be ~290k this year. It can pay as low as $82k if the player never makes the NBA roster.
How it works: The 2-way contract this year pays 82k. The player gets a pro-rated amount of the NBA minimum salary if they make the NBA roster. They are limited to a maximum of 45 days/year on the NBA roster (~25% of the season). This caps their salary at 920k*25% + 82k*75% = ~290k.
One advantage of taking a 2-way contract, is that it counts as a year of experience. This impacts the minimum pay for future contracts.
As per my previous post, what little evidence I have found said that 2-way contracts can only be used on undrafted players, or otherwise unrestricted free agents.
Where did I say you could? Curbelo, Trent and Plummer have all put out gear to capitalize on their personal brands, not associated with the Illini. That is 100% consistent with NIL.
I'm not sure to what degree pros profit off jersey sales with their name. They get something for sure, but I think I've read it's a pretty small percentage. I imagine Ayo's profits from his name will be a lot bigger if he makes the NBA roster vs if he ends up playing the majority of this season in the G league. In any event, i don't think it's a stretch to think that Ayo as a college player of the year candidate would bring in more $$$ than Ayo as a 2nd round draft pick and possibly NBA role player (at least in years 1 and 2). It's all new and hard to say what happens, but I kinda doubt Ayo makes $1 million this season. Kofi could. Kofi could also make like $80k. I really don't think we know yet.
Looking forward to the Holloman vs Epps battles.
I agree that the message boards debates are by those who have no say in matters, and often no knowledge. This isn't how everyone takes it. Aaron Jordan's dad (rjcord1) used to get quite worked up by responses on this board and by all appearances he was a very well balanced, mature, person. At one point I wrote an explicit reminder to him that the people here are armchair quarterbacks blowing off time. Their opinions should not be taken seriously. It had not sunk in for him. He referenced the post later as he tried to ease up.
wrt. the specific arguments, there is a difference between "can impact a decision" and "will impact a decision". It is easy to find anecdotal evidence against almost any non-absolute statement (e.g.#1). If you had two job offers, that you really could not decide between, and you had read one positive forum and another "contentious" forum. Might it influence your decision as an 18yr old kid?
I'm not saying that the discussions should be banned. I'm pointing out a possible consequence, and hoping that such comments become references (e.g. we may have backed off of <player> due to <reason>) vs. a repeated 'fact' across pages/weeks without actual knowledge of their truth.
According to Hoops Rumors, several 2nd round picks have already signed 2-way contracts - Aaron Wiggins being one.
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