Maybe, idk I just see him as a 6th man at best. Foster/Proctor/James/Flagg all seem pretty locked in.
Yeah. Iāve felt from day one that Power was utterly screwed going to Duke. And while Iāve wanted that to also be true for Kon, Iāve never thought it would be. I doubt heāll start right away, but I think Kon will be a productive pain in the ass until he gets drafted.
I guess he could be another Reed Sheppard. One year of misery for us and then we donāt have to deal or think about him.
Really Trevor Keels is the better comparison, both in that we were much closer to landing Keels than we ever were with Sheppard, plus the added PITA of having to see him in conference.
That is true but I was thinking how Sheppard turned out to be way better than anyone expected as a FR and that may be the same with Kon. Keels was disappointing picking Duke over us but never was an impact player and was a one and done because he wanted to turn pro as soon as possible.
Funny enough Keels and Sheppard are both on the Rockets Summer League team. For those who want to watch and wonder āWhat ifā
I think this is his 2024-25 ucla highlight package, no? The one where he does fuck all, except get 3s drained in his eye?
I dont know what we are comparing but offensively Kon looks like Reed Sheppard to me. But wont have the ability on defense to get steals that Reed had in one year of college
Where is the lie.
This would raise the basketball scholarship limit to 15, starting in 2025-26. The immediate impact would be current walk-ons becoming scholarship players. But I wonder if it would eventually be the end of the walk-on once rosters turnover. Extra spots for developmental players.
Seems huge for baseball right @KarlHess @UVApride7 ?
The football increase seems like an invitation for the top schools to stockpile, each school absorbing some players who would have played a tier below. Might further shrink the sport. Could be especially crazy in the year when the change takes effect.
Title IX implications interesting too.
Seems like another example of the NCAA doing something that appears to be a good deed on the surfaceā¦whoās not in favor of more college scholarships? Tthat may prove to be not so good for the game. At least basketball and football.
Wonder how much of this is the motivation:
Many schools are preparing to increase scholarships significantly and can count as much as $2.5 million of additional scholarships toward the annual revenue sharing cap, expected to begin at or around $21.5 million. According to several power conference administrators who spoke to Yahoo Sports, programs are expecting to spend $3 million-7 million in additional scholarships each year.
Cheaper for the school to pay $2.5M in scholarship costs that they get to define than in cash.
My immediate reaction is itās a positive for baseball and should allow us to focus more of our NIL efforts towards the transfer portal instead of helping to supplement the partial scholarships weāve had to allocate out. That is a MASSIVE jump and I imagine will take quite the increase in overall funding towards the program but I would guess that getting money for scholarships towards student-athletes will be easier to obtain than strictly NIL.
I think this will really hurt our football program though (as if it wasnāt already hurt enough) given our main talent pool tends to be guys who donāt get enough interest or offers from big time programs. If the top half of the P5 is able to supplement the depth of their rosters with even more flyer HS prospects and transfers then we scrape even further down the barrel, not to mention admissions already being a hurdle we have to overcome regardless of how overstated or understated that issue tends to be.
To add to this, I think itās a big negative for successful baseball mid majors like East Carolina, Louisiana, Texas State, etc.
In the past, ECU could offer a really good, but not blue chip, player from NC a 75% scholarship with in state tuition. They may be competing against a South Carolina for the player who may only be offering a 25% scholarship and out of state tuition.
The economics and playing time opportunties at play could let ECU win that recruiting battle. Now itās going to be a full ride to either and if South Carolina really wants the player they are going to win that recruiting battle nearly every time.
Yeah, this sounds like a move to appease the SEC. What the SEC (and maybe the B1G) doesnāt get is that by creating a professional sports league where the same teams keep winning all sports all the time ultimately will kill the golden geese that are college sports. Most college graduates in the U.S. went somewhere other than an SEC or B1G university. They will find other things to do on fall Saturdays and winter nights.
Iām not a subscriber, but 3 Man Weave are now on Trillyās discord, Burner Ball. They rank SMU #47 in their top 50 countdown:
Dang it, I have gotten adjusted to Cal and Stanford being in conference now, but I keep forgetting about SMU.