DChoosier

Your question incorrectly assumes there are enforced rules.

I’m dying to hear if RTZ thinks we are going to land Conerway!!

This post is total BS but, . If true, it wouldn’t bother me……….at all

Most of the NCAA teams do not apply as they do not, and cannot, pay the players a ton of dough. They are similar in attendance, pay etc as triple A to MLB. A $8,000,000 a year NBA bench player would not make that money if it wasn’t for the NBA jersey he is wearing (ie just like the college kids wearing an IU jersey). If you think people would shell out hundreds of dollars for tickets, thousands for suites, tv would pay billions (all which enable bench dudes to make 3-10mm a year) to watch those bench players compete against each other outside of the NBA more power to you. I stand by my comment that they are as dependent on the front of the jersey as college kids.

Your “front of the jersey” argument isn’t just college as it applies to 90% of NBA/MLB/NFL etc players.

Your avatar makes it much more challenging to disagree with you :)

UM really seems to be an outlier (which might end up frustrating Dusty). They suspended McDaniel and they have also denied transfers (such as Caleb Love), that are able to find another school in 10 seconds, for academics..

Fine. Agree to disagree. Yes, the NBA benchwarmers are considerably better (not even close) than college kids but they are just as dependent on their “brand” (being a Laker/Pacer/Celtic) as are the college players (IU/UK etc).

I didn’t say it was tough. I think they have it GREAT. Just saying they are essentially pros.

You could say the same thing about most NBA players. Put together a league with 200 non-superstar (but still making 5-10mm) NBA guys, without their Celtic/Laker uniforms, and I’m guessing there would be very little fan interest.

I think so as they are making a ton of money for their craft and I can’t even imagine some of the “3-4 schools in 4 years” guys being in classrooms. Wouldn’t surprise me if some of the schools have a number of players with a very heavy dose of online classes. When is the last time we heard of a player being academically ineligible during the season? Who can blame the players. They are expected to play on multiple week-nights, go on cross country trips and work well over 40 hours a week.

I’d put him above McNeelys 1.5 simply because there seems to be a great deal of wage inflation this off-season. That being said it’s really hard to estimate/guess. Many thought Flagg was in the $2,000,000 range but the WSJ recently published an article stating that Duke finance bro’s came up with $4,800,000 for Flagg. Kind of crazy but who even knows which of those numbers are close.

I caught some flack yesterday for saying it appeared Wilkerson preferred UK but if the above numbers are true it sure seems that way. If we are indeed offering an extra 500k-900k more than UK, and he prefers IU, you would think it would take him 2 seconds to commit to us. If he was torn 50/50 between the two schools, and we offered an extra 500-900k, maybe it would take him 3 seconds to decide. We will see but in any case it looks like we have a lot of irons in the fire right now and I think we will end up with a decent/good team with a much better brand of offense. EDIT: all of this is a guessing game but a very positive scenario would be that Livingston really wants to win and is delaying to see if it looks like we are going to land other talented guys. As always…who knows

I want to get him but….from what is being posted (and who the hell knows if any of it is true) .it sounds like it’s between where he really wants to go and a bigger bag. Guess that’s the smell of victory these days.

Or the agent called Auburn, before they made the trip, and said here is where we are $$$$$$$$ and Auburn said no thanks. Who knows……we are all guessing.