Just call it the NBA minor leagues. Pay the men - but let them continue to enroll in schools. That's essentially all this is (save for some jibberish about racism thrown in for good measure because #reasons).
I'm not naive enough to think my opinion on the matter reflects that of our society, but not a chance in Hades I'd ever watch this. Just like I don't watch the D-League, nor do I watch overseas hoops. I congratulate them on trying to break up a monopoly by providing competition and alternative choices and letting the market decide what it actually wants, but I just don't see this working at all. Unless, like I said, it's just pitched as a minor leagues.
I watch college sports for the name on the front of the jersey, not the back. I mean come on, I have to speak for most of us on this message board in saying we all come here and cheer for OU because of OU. Not because of *insert highly touted recruit here*. If that was all we cared about, we certainly wouldn't be diehard mid-major fans.
But maybe I'm bass ackwards. Maybe people just want to follow their local And-1 (does this even still exist?) Instagram Star with his Nike/Walmart/Taco Bell labelled endorsements dunking on people on a blacktop near you while collecting his $150k check.
Exactly. And I have a hard time believing that the education part of this is going to be a draw to very many of the players. And without the NBA subsidizing this I don't see any way it survives if it even ever gets off the drawing board. Also tired of hearing how these kids are "victims". Love the angle that the colleges are not teaching these kids about real life situations like finances. Ummm, Ohio didn't teach me that either. My family and life experiences did. I hope it does take off though and I hope we see an end to the one and dones in college. As it stands there sure are a lot of kids standing in line to become one of these victims.