College Bball Thread

[WayneFleekHoosier]

15 minutes ago, HoosierFan1994 said:

Big 12 Player of the year JT Toppin is returning to Texas Tech. This is why I'm overall in favor of NIL, portal, etc. I think it's a great thing when an All-American player is returning. Not sure he would have been a lottery pick, but I think he was going to get drafted this year. 

Yeah, the sport is WAY better at the top than it has been in a long time.  

[HoosierFan1994]

47 minutes ago, WayneFleekHoosier said:

Yeah, the sport is WAY better at the top than it has been in a long time.  

Unless a player has a great chance of going in the NBA lottery, I would stay in school until their elgibility is done. 

[WayneFleekHoosier]

3 minutes ago, HoosierFan1994 said:

Unless a player has a great chance of going in the NBA lottery, I would stay in school until their elgibility is done. 

At this rate unless you are going to actually make the main team's roster you probably stay in college and get 1.5-4 million to play.  These numbers are astronomical.  

[Stuhoo]

2 minutes ago, WayneFleekHoosier said:

At this rate unless you are going to actually make the main team's roster you probably stay in college and get 1.5-4 million to play.  These numbers are astronomical.  

Yup. More kids are getting college degrees and forgoing the second round of the NBA draft to do so. Almost any kid that can remain eligible at a P5 school is going to stay in school rather than go to the G League or overseas.

[go iu bb]

Congress is getting involved and trying to "help," again. I doubt these make it any further than previous bills.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/college/2025/04/08/college-athletes-employees-ncaa-house-bill/82993033007/

https://www.nbcsports.com/nfl/profootballtalk/rumor-mill/news/new-bill-in-congress-would-revolutionize-college-athletics-and-end-the-ncaa

[go iu bb]

A couple of takeaways from this: 1) Queen obviously doesn't like that Willard is going to Villanova. 2) Villanova basketball started in 1920. To have him be only the 10th coach is impressive.

 

[lillurk]

1 hour ago, go iu bb said:

A couple of takeaways from this: 1) Queen obviously doesn't like that Willard is going to Villanova. 2) Villanova basketball started in 1920. To have him be only the 10th coach is impressive.

 

Indeed — believe Bill Self is only Kansas’s 8th coach, and they’ve been around since 1898, even more insane. (They’ve had 9, but the 9th was Norm Roberts subbing for Self for 4 games.)

[Scotty R]

59 minutes ago, lillurk said:

Indeed — believe Bill Self is only Kansas’s 8th coach, and they’ve been around since 1898, even more insane. (They’ve had 9, but the 9th was Norm Roberts subbing for Self for 4 games.)

It is like the Steelers who has only had 3 coaches since 1969

[go iu bb]

It looks like the NIL clearinghouse may never come to be. Even if it does, I doubt it'll last long before getting sued out of existence.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/college/2025/04/07/house-ncaa-settlement-hearing-live-updates-college-sports/82968197007/

The judge had a concern about this, among a few other things:

●The justification for a setup under which athletes’ name, image and likeness deals with entities other than their school that have a value of more than $600 would be subject to a review process to assess their legitimacy within the marketplace and such a deal with an athlete advances what is being termed by the NCAA and the conferences as “a valid business purpose.”

Wilken's concerns with rules around athlete NIL deals with third parties

Judge Wilken says she needs a "pro-competitve justification" for the proposed system under the settlement that would set up a more stringent evaluation by the NCAA and conferences of the athletes' NIL deals that are worth more than $600. That is, how would this promote competition for athletes' NIL services and how would it not hurt athletes.

Kilaru says these evaluations are necessary to prevent circumvention of the schools' annual cap on direct NIL payments to athletes and that it's part of the overall agreement.

Wilken reponds: "Each thing (in the agreement) needs to be reasonable."

[Home Jersey]

SIAP - Huss going back to Creighton as HC in waiting. 

[AZ Hoosier]

1 hour ago, Home Jersey said:

SIAP - Huss going back to Creighton as HC in waiting. 

I saw that... brilliant move by McDermott... Huss is gonna kill it when he gets the reins...

[swingline91]

Somebody needs to go get this for their basement. https://www.govdeals.com/en/asset/16226/3923

[go iu bb]

LOL They should go ahead and make the T--shirts.

They'll be good but certainly not 40-0 good and no way it's the greatest roster ever.

 

[TheWatShot]

16 minutes ago, go iu bb said:

LOL They should go ahead and make the T--shirts.

They'll be good but certainly not 40-0 good and no way it's the greatest roster ever.

 

I hope they play an SEC team so we can watch Smith and Loyer get abused again. 

[Pagoda]

1 hour ago, go iu bb said:

LOL They should go ahead and make the T--shirts.

They'll be good but certainly not 40-0 good and no way it's the greatest roster ever.

They're getting pretty excited.

I hate it, but right now they have the second best odds to win it all next year.  I don't think they are that good, but they are going to be strong and peaking again, which won't be fun.  Fortunately, this board appears to have no PU trolls, which is nice.

We really need CDD to get us going again, I'm sick and f'in tired of losing to Purdue.*

* I know Woody split with them, but they've been a better program for a decade now by a pretty big margin.

[go iu bb]

lol, this Illinois guy making fun of Purdue fans. The comments are funny.

https://x.com/PaulSmith248/status/1912946938804154761

 

[go iu bb]

NIL is about to get ugly with collectives/schools suing players for leaving. It'll be interesting to see how it all plays out. In the article below, it's talking about some of them planning to sue some football players whose contracts included buyout clauses. I think we'll start seeing this in basketball as well, especially with rev share.

https://www.on3.com/college/arkansas-razorbacks/news/arkansas-demanding-money-from-madden-iamaleava-others-through-nil-buyout/

[AZ Hoosier]

NIL is about to get ugly with collectives/schools suing players for leaving. It'll be interesting to see how it all plays out. In the article below, it's talking about some of them planning to sue some football players whose contracts included buyout clauses. I think we'll start seeing this in basketball as well, especially with rev share.
https://www.on3.com/college/arkansas-razorbacks/news/arkansas-demanding-money-from-madden-iamaleava-others-through-nil-buyout/

I really think this is a good thing. It might suck for the kids getting sued, but in the end, I think it will bring the whole NIL free-for-all to a head, and it will ultimately usher the age of reason back to this mess.

[go iu bb]

1 hour ago, AZ Hoosier said:

I really think this is a good thing. It might suck for the kids getting sued, but in the end, I think it will bring the whole NIL free-for-all to a head, and it will ultimately usher the age of reason back to this mess.

I don't feel for the kids being sued. They signed a contract then broke that contract. The bigger the contract amount, the more likely the other party will be upset by that contract being broken and retaliate. Welcome to the real world.

I agree with the rest of what you said and I think the same. The question I have is whether a buyout will hold up in court if the players aren't employees.

[Muskie plays the four]

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