somebody hands me 10k it is not going anywhere that could be seen...

Things to remember about today. This is ONE agent. ONE. Know how many of these jokers there are around college basketball?

Coaches can, in no way, be expected to know what the parents/handlers are doing.

To the credit of our AD when new cars and things that raise eyebrows showed up with our athletes behind the Convo beside the "piece of shit white truck" he had the stones and smarts to pick up the phone and call to find out the story. Great job. If the kid is not taking the money, then you got to look at the parents.

There are hundreds of these jokers around summer ball courts from east to west.

The NCAA is a NON profit. It is a large organization. I do not think the salaries there are out of line with the top 10 salaries of many smaller organizations (Blue Cross, Nationwide and most health care insurers come to mind) and I suspect they are doing a lot more work than many of those CEOs and under a LOT more scrutiny. We talk about folks making money while the athletes do not get paid. Laughable. I have been around many athletes who are thankful for the degree and the free education. I have not been around more than a handful who have lamented NOT getting paid. THe folks bitching loudest about athletes not getting paid are folks who were never athletes. Mike and Mike used to go back and forth. Greenberg was the loudest proponent of paying athletes while Golic and his kids were thankful for what they had been given. Greenberg became the poster boy, to me,of the stereotypical NON athlete lamenting the Poor Poor athletes being taken advantage of....

The dominoes will fall and college sports will change. I have heard several coaches who adamantly said today. "We just want it cleaned up" and I hear in their voices that same lament I have heard from many coaches who feel like they have been forced to make a choice of running a clean program or get passed by. I hope Emmerich makes changes that insulate student athletes from folks that are looking to make money on them. Though I am a vocal critic of many things they do the NCAA is a pretty spectacular undertaking that provides a lot of good opportunities for far many more folks past the household names. I am now waiting for the academians who hate college sports with every fibre of their being to start with their opines.

Pitino should have to get the championship tattoo removed from his shoulder blade.

I had put a response to Van Gundy but somehow lost the whole damn thing.

He is an enigma to me. I have never figure out how he got where he is and never thought much of his coaching. His wiki is baffling. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stan_Van_Gundy Now he is commenting on things acting like he does not know much about the history. I could not agree more with him about the one and done. Long said it was a sham and should be abolished but it is an NBA rule born of the Union protecting their players jobs and Stern making the product better by evaluating them on someone else's dime.

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Historically, Spencer Haywood led the way challenging the NBA with an antitrust lawsuit. Opening the door the NBA let "hardship" cases go early "to support their families". Most of the list of guys declaring, like Magic, were poor and black and used it to go to work to help the family.

The NBA Players Assn, like any good Union protecting their members, decided to enact the one and done....the NFL requires 3 years with no one having a cow. Not sure of the difference. The result as we all know is that the kids that are one and dones like Koufos did not even show up for class second semester. They don't want to be there, let em go. No worries.

If anything the NBA should provide basic requirements of rookies in accounting, contracts, personal finance and public speaking and the Ohio course it teaches in Biz school, professional presence to give these dudes usable knowledge. The NBA can afford to have rookie school. It will make their members better able to cope as they have that pile of cash come at their yet unformed brains and processes they skipped by not going to class in HS and forgoing college.

Van Gundy says the "one thing I know about the NCAA" shows how little he really knows about anything. 351 D1 schools being led by 60 or so in the Power 5 just looking to raid any up and coming overperformer from the mids. I think the grad transfer rule shows what happens when you let immediate eligibility go through. Bad choices, bad decisions and the haves strip the other 25 or so conferences of their talents leaving them as a feeder system.

Coached a college team? asst at Vermont (a recruiting juggernaut) and then ASST at a couple more D1s in the 1980s. Head at a D2 in the late 80s. In the other thread you say this STARTED 30 years ago. He was at Wisky as an asst before this got rolling.

Never will you hear me say I am smarter than anyone. I always assume even a guy like you is better connected or has better insight than I. What you put up here reflects on you. It is either factual and well though out ...or not. Van Gundy is out of his element, uninformed and misguided, IMO, and his statements reflect that.