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Couldn’t think of anywhere to put this, but here’s the NCAA just continuing to create more exceptions every day. I assume minor league baseball players will be treated the same. Serious question: has NCAA leadership made the conscious decision that they are so irrelevant in the new world order that they want to be bypassed and ultimately dissolved and replaced by some other governing entity? Certainly feels that way.

Would think so. But, you just know his girlfriend is some girl he’s known since 2nd grade who he helped up after she got knocked down at recess. Now she teaches at some really tough school in Miami and they write one another letters every week. Not e-mails, letters.

Yup

Was in scouting for not quite 12 years when I got out of college a million or so years ago. Got out of it and into normal life late 90’s and strictly a hobby since then. But the tools available are so good and readily accessible now and combined with this little spot to scribble my thoughts that it kind of feeds my addiction because I absolutely love it.

To the extent that I’d be sympathetic to a G-League kid going the college route, a situation like Pate is probably as close as it would get. He signed with G-League Ignite after classing up knowing he would be playing a minimum of 2 years with them before he would be draft eligible. It folded after his 1st year and he was denied a draft eligibility waiver because he was still 18. He played a year abroad which I guess was kind of a mess and then went undrafted and is now back in the G-League. He’s really young and it wouldn’t bother me if the kid played in college given that he would have under today’s circumstances.

This has Muss written all over it.

God, I hope IU is 1 of them.

That’s a very good win. Bosco is really good and Collins is a top 10 kid.

I have a Trentyn Flowers story that some of the MOD’s might remember from a few years back: When Woody was recruiting Rakease Passmore I went to see him and Combine Academy his junior year at a showcase event. Trentyn Flowers was a teammate of his that year, something like the 4th high school he’d gone to. By blind luck I ended up sitting next to Flowers’ parents. Figured that out when he came over and gave Mom a hug. They couldn’t have been nicer folks. They talked my ear off the entire game. When I asked about his recruitment, because what the hell, Mom said that if it was purely a basketball decision it would be Creighton because they loved McDermott, they loved the facilities and the offense and Trent felt really comfortable there. But, it wasn’t going to be Creighton because, as Dad flat out told this stranger, “They don’t have nearly enough money.” He made it 100% clear that the biggest check was the only factor. He thought it was gonna be KU but the process was ongoing. They were as transactional as it gets. Then U of L swept in with, presumably, the biggest check and Flowers reclassed to ‘23 and committed. He was on campus for a couple of months before he split for the Australian League. So, I believe he’s 20 and has played for 4 high schools, was on a college campus, played in the Australian League and has been with a couple of NBA orgs. Long way of saying, if you were gonna bet on what 2-way guy would break the barrier and take the college money and run, this is probably your guy. Here’s the thing: he really looks the part and he’s a talented kid but he’s not particularly good. He flashes everything you want but with the exception of a short stretch in the ABL he’s never actually done it anywhere. If DDV is looking at this, ok, I guess, but I really don’t know what you should be expecting.

Was surprised how much he played off the ball. Maybe just a function of playing someone they could’ve named their score against. Can’t imagine that in actually competitive games he doesn’t have the ball.

I’m sure it’s possible to be more passive defensively than Georgia Tech is right now, just not sure how. Maybe play 10 guys?

You just needed to say the word and a CTA-coached DB blows a tackle and there it is.

Oh look, Notre Dame’s 2nd best win just lost to East Carolina. Yeah, such a field weakening travesty that they weren’t a playoff team.

Don’t know what anybody paid to sit in an awkwardly configured stadium in crappy weather in late December to watch this utter turd of a game, but, man, God love their hearts. They’re better fans than I am.

Thanks so much for posting this. Was looking for something interesting and this works all day, though the camerawork is pretty headache-inducing.

The East Carolina kicker just left a 51 yd fg attempt close to 10 yards short and the announcers are trying to blame it on the wind. I must have missed that hurricane that is evidently hitting the east coast.

Try not to spit take with shock, but Diego Pavia is trying to foist his $hittiness onto us for even more seasons.

Genius

From his original CTA IU scouting report: 6’1” but has the eye level of a 6’3” player. Having eyes above his hairline requires the player to keep his head shaved or has vision impairment. Problem could take care of itself over time.

This is a pretty damned interesting question. Jokic is becoming a Rorschach test for how someone sees the game. How do you rate the greatest offensive center ever who’s an above average rebounder and at best an average defender?

OKC now 26-5 vs SA 0-3 with two bad double digit losses vs rest of the League 26-2

I swear. “Declared for the draft”? He played 4 full college seasons at 3 different schools.

Got to give credit where it’s due, when the portal stuff popped up Calipari basically called exactly what’s happening and said something to the effect of, “We’re gonna find out quick which coaches actually like developing players.”

Nice article and filled in some gaps. Of all the coach/school marriages that popped up this cycle Penn St/Campbell always seemed just straight obvious. Couldn’t figure out the deal there. Now we sort of know.

The only threshold left to cross is a kid who’s actually played NBA games. Such a shame.