Pick apart the wording if you want to, but there’s a hell of a lot more negativity in this thread than what I wrote.
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Nah, make it like pro soccer. New team has to pay the old team a transfer fee. Gives the development teams some extra revenue to keep developing players.
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I saw some threads on other (non-UVA) boards where Creighton is trying to build a national brand around their men’s basketball team (pouring all resources into it). Some early reads on that were EVERY scholarship player gets: (1) $75,000 (2) Condo (3) Car. Of course the better, more prominent players probably get much more.
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(4) Girlfriend
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Very smart. They can’t be great at everything but they can make a perennial contender in basketball. Just need to bring in 2-3 ballers every year like Gonzaga and pump in the money from the donors.
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Agreed and it’s not like they’re building from scratch the foundation is there. And in Omaha the money is going to go a lot further. I’d also guess it’s a lot harder to get big/prominent recruits into Omaha without added incentive.
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& getting the loot to buy a house for you and your lady… can’t say I blame him tho I do..lol
Historically speaking, this isn’t the first time we’ve lost a transfer who wanted to be closer to home.
A few examples of players transferring without coaching changes, etc.:
(1) Lance Blanks (The Woodlands, Texas). He played two years at UVa, averaging about 6.5 minutes per game. He transferred to Texas (2 1/2 hours from home).
(2) Derrick Byars (Memphis, Tenn.). He played two seasons, averaging a little more than 20 minutes per game. He transferred to Vandy (3 hours from home).
Both ended up being all-conference players at their new homes — and Traudt might be too. Home is sometimes where the heart is.
Traudt was not the first, and he won’t be the last.
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Someone needs to get in Maliq Brown’s ear
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Tangent, but if I remember, he sent at least one of his daughters here, and she was a team manager for a while. Transfer doesn’t necessarily have to mean dynamite the bridge…
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Dudes loved Lance. I never met him
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To the extent that this is true, or even remotely prevalent at schools, I’m just about done with NCAA basketball. Name-Image-Likeness was to be a manner in which the “student athlete” could benefit from his/her name, image and likeness. None of a salary, condo, car, or whatever inducement that is mentioned as part of recruiting has even a remote nexus to NIL. CBB is now the NBA without contract certainty - and I don’t watch the NBA. Something is really wrong when what will be nearly 1/3 of the players with remaining eligibility enter the portal (over a 1,000 are in it now).
I hope this is just the wild west phase of a stupid toothless institution and that some sense of … well I don’t even know what to call it, maybe “propriety” …will ultimately prevail, but in my heart I know better.
As someone proposed, let those that want to compete pay whatever and those that don’t, don’t. I’ll follow the don’'t haves if that occurs.
Yeah, I’m a grumpy old man - GTF off my lawn!
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Good points. I believe football should definitely be split up between “NIL MAX” and the rest. UVA clearly would be in the latter bucket and we would be better off for it. Getting our asses kicked every year by schools that don’t even pretend to care about academics or ethics is not sport. Basketball…I am not there yet but could be soon. I could imagine a 64 team field in for NCAAT that is NIL Max on one side and the rest on the other. Two best from each division play for the title.
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There’s a lot of money floating around in Omaha. Lots of Berkshire Hathaway employees who did well with the employee stock plan.
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Ironically, one of Berkshire’s highest paid employees lives in cville.
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In case anyone was wondering, the algorithm is still working. I am now getting Creighton basketball clips in public tweets, Insta feeds, etc. LOL. You gotta love the algorithm’s dedication.
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*96 team lol
Absolutely, there’s good money out there. Have an ex who does well for herself out there. Omaha is not a slouch town from the potential to earn, but it does avoid the pitfalls of crazy overhead.
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Condos in Omaha, but they still haven’t brought back the EA Sports NCAA football/basketball games. smh.
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Just so I have things straight, how might things have gone differently with Traudt? First, I was under the impression that it was Isaac Traudt and his family who broached the idea of a redshirt. Having Type I diabetes, and coming from the very structured home life that such requires, I had read that it was Traudt who wanted to redshirt to ease his way into being on his own. So, was the redshirt forced on him by Coach Bennett or did he, and his family, request it? Second, if he didn’t redshirt, how many minutes would he have played? With the addition of Vander Plas, the front court became a bit crowded, and, even if Traudt’s offensive skill set was equal to the task, how long do you imagine it would have taken for him to earn the staff’s trust on the defensive end? Given the meagre amount of playing time available, wouldn’t a redshirt make a great deal of sense in this instance? It seems to me it would have been a waste of a year of eligibility to be on the active roster. Finally, in all likelihood, he’s moving back to Nebraska. He’s homesick and misses his family. Would being on the active roster change that? Personally, I think too many people here are grasping at straws when they try and blame “redshirting” for his transfer. It’s an easy target, but I am unconvinced.
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