Kansas loss
Texas Tech loss
Bama loss
Nebraska currently down
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Big night for UVA 3 seed odds. might be up to 10th in WAB now or very close to it (although Purdue does play NU tomorrow).
Edit: Nebraska just got blown out @ UCLA too.
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Can we get Trent Perry in the portal?
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Isnāt Michigan tampering with him?
Also feel like given what we already know that he might just bop over to USC
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Bad trend
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Agree. The NBA has ways to incentivize continuity that donāt get used in college basketball for various reasons. A couple of half-baked carrots for continuity that donāt require using the big E-word (maybe):
- Vesting retention bonuses for players: Conferences pool a percentage of media rights revenue into a pot that gets divvied out purely based on continuity at a school
- Bird Rights: Players who stay at their school count for 50% of their actual revenue share value when it comes to cap math
- Post-grad grants conditional on academic achievement: Graduate from a school youāve played for X number of seasons, and you get handed money upon graduating
The stick I would like to see used more is regulating college basketball agents.
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I like this idea and Iāll expoundā¦
75% of rev share for freshmen that stay
50% for sophomores who stay
25% for juniors who stay
0% for any 5th years who stay (redshirts)
This is the one, I think. I donāt think bird rights will pass muster legally absent a CBA, and a CBA is itself illegal unless thereās a union
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Yeah, I wasnāt sure if the Bird Rights idea was legal or not
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Just to expand a bit, Iād guess itās illegal because you couldnāt have that system absent a horizontal agreement (and anything imposed by the NCAA will be viewed as a horizontal agreement) to impose it, and then it seems like a violation
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Just back on hoops, the Lil Peja thing and this thing are probably good reminders that keeping the majority of our eligible to return guys will be a great outcome.
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What if you just let teams pay them
More instead of it counting less?
I think the ACC ones are Seth Trimble, Donald Hand Jr and I have no idea who the 3rd one is.
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Dillon Hunter from Clemson.
Hand is a redshirt Junior so he does not count.
Edit: The third one is Benny Gaeler (Stanford). Literally the last team roster I looked atā¦
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Can that be right - just 22? Not even more end of the bench guys?
Yeah, walk-ons donāt count which would expand it.
Impressive that Purdue has 3. Loyer, Smith and Kauffman-Renn.
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Hmm, maybe Mark Pope took that extra defender that Nate Oates didnāt useā¦
https://twitter.com/contextfreecbb/status/2029066573496119379?s=46&t=vkjgQUekzGC7z44tIfnIRQ
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I think itās complicated. The other backdrop to all this is we only have a cap because of a settlement to an antitrust lawsuit, blessed by a federal judge whoās been more involved in these issues than other person (certainly any other judge - she even did the original OāBannon case - itās all ibannons fault as @chavlicek15 says)
Otherwise a cap wouldnāt be okayā¦
Iām sure Hav is happy to be tagged into a legal discussion. Ha ha! Please send your check to @AnonymooseHoo
Northwestern squandered their double digit lead. Close game, but not sure Northwestern has it in them to pull it off.
Itās a Purdue crowd in Evanston. Hope we avoid a Hokie takeover on Saturday - sounds awful to hear the crowd during NW free throws and when calls go against Purdue.