25/26 College Basketball

[emunney]

Good for you.

I didn't say anything about me?

Implicitly, yes.

Good for you.

[Kerb Hohl]

I think maybe this would be fine with some controls on it, but there are so many nuances/challenges.

I think Giannis absolutely deserves to be a billionaire. But the sport would only have a niche following in Milwaukee if the Lakers were able to say, "actually, the Lakers already realize my potential after year 2 and I'm signing a $400 million deal." There may be some free market stuff where the 2nd/3rd tier markets where a team like the Lakers would've overspent on gambles like that, but in general, economically, it would just get out of control.

So we have contracts. But college stints are short. Potentially 1 year in basketball and up to 5, of course. We are fine with sports contracts in the pros because it is over a 15-year career for the good players. I superstar can lock himself in somewhere and still be free to go somewhere else later. If everything in college sports is on a year-to-year basis (you only have a handful to use) then the stability sucks...especially since you can't do trades. It's still the free will of the player as to where they go to college, of course.

I understand some of this was already this way before under-the-table, but they may need control/a governing body, which might involve the SEC breaking off for football or whatever. I feel like 100% consolidating the best talent to these semi-pro leagues could take a lot of universal appeal and David vs. Goliath/rivalry out of college sports, and you may lose most of the fans.

[BUCKnation]

College sports are definitely not what they were. With open season on player movement, college sports to the nba is basically looking more and more like League 2 or the Championship in comparison to the Premier league. There is some good and some bad to the this. I'll still root for my school (wisconsin), but it'll be weird to see players come and go freely rather than stay all 4 years or leave early for the draft if they are good enough. I loved seeing some of these smaller school guys get sponsors after a good tourney, but some of this stuff is ridiculous. I'm on the side of players should have power, but maybe there is too much now? idk

Either way, it makes for a super interesting discussion and I'm really fascinated to see where we are in 5 to 10 years.

[MickeyDavis]

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Texas

[crkone]

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They may never be good again but this is a step in the right direction.

[ReginaldDwight]

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They may never be good again but this is a step in the right direction.

They will improve under Lundy, tomorrow night will show alot with them at purdue

[ReginaldDwight]

If you all need a hoops fix tonight Milwaukee vs Purdue on Big10 Network right now

[LittleRooster]

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They may never be good again but this is a step in the right direction.

They will improve under Lundy, tomorrow night will show alot with them at purdue

I think they found a good one with Lundy


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[ReginaldDwight]

Lets hope so, they got bodied tonight by Purdue. They actually have an identity though and the Horizon league is so bad. Still the best value ticket in town and would be nice if the arena got filled a bit more again.

[MikeIsGood]

DJ Wagner committing to Kentucky is kind of cool, as his dad is Dejuan Wagner who played under Callipari when he coached at Memphis. I imagine that's gotta make Callipari feel old.

[Mags FTW]

Minny got the snot beat out of them by DePaul. As funny as it is, won't be good for Badger's SOS.

Lol, also this:

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[MikeIsGood]

Alright, time to really get going tonight. UK/MSU @ 6p, Duke/KU @ 830p. Also got my eye on SDSU/Stanford; going to be interesting to see how the trees do this year, as that might end up being a pretty solid win.

UW also takes on UWGB at 8. Going to be some channel flipping going on tonight, or may pull up Duke/KU game on my laptop.

[MikeIsGood]

Awesome day of basketball; great timing with no Packers game. All B2B on ESPN.

19 Illinois @ 16 Virginia 2p
8 UCLA @ 5 Baylor 430p
4 Kentucky @ 2 Gonzaga 630p

[MikeIsGood]

Wasn't sure if it would be or not, but Houston @ Oregon is also a pretty good game. Houston looks a little...eh, fraudulent. It some how feels like they usually do, even when they end up in the F4.

[Mags FTW]

I saw that Minny needed OT to beat California Baptist. Went to check what the line was to see how big of an upset that would've been and was shocked to see Minny was the underdog. I knew they were rebuilding, but wow...

[machu46]

The team sucks, but Syracuse finally has a somewhat exciting player again for the first time in what feels like forever.

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[DingleJerry]

Anyone have a quick summary of how Louisville has fallen this far so quickly?

[MikeIsGood]

Anyone have a quick summary of how Louisville has fallen this far so quickly?

I believe they had almost total roster turnover, at least among contributing players. But that's all I got.

They have 90 turnovers and 36 assists. You almost have to try to be that bad

[buckboy]

This Arkansas/Creighton game is outstanding.