Way too early to draw this (or any) conclusion, but is it possible that the portal and NIL helped SEC hoops and hurt SEC football?
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Yes to both imo. NIL beat up football depth but allowed the SEC to pay for great players in basketball
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Kinda makes sense. It is a lot easier to get 10 impact players than 24.
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I think the football NIL allowed others to compete with the core cheaters that we all know about.
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If UVA doesnât step up the NIL game for basketball, the coaching hire will be irrelevant.
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Graham doesnât need any help to make himself look foolish at times. However, he was spot on last Spring/Summer speculating about the UVA being in the twilight of the Bennett era.
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NIL is fine for UVa basketball. It just wasnât spent very efficiently by our current coaching staff. Iâm not worried about that side of it at all.
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I bet Capel wants the job more than we want him. I go back and forth on him. Why isnât he recruiting better?
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Apparently their new AD gutted the NIL or something in relations to their debt
I would agree our money is not as effective as it could be recently given our antiquated systems. Tony could get the buy-in of a select few ballers here and there to avoid a dramatic slide but that time is gone. We need EXCITEMENT in the next hire and a promising story to go with it.
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That would be insane to fire and interim to replace him with an interim when the season was lost.
BTW, This seasonâs trainwreck is 100% on Tony Bennett. He was out selling the idea of a â2-year planâ when the season began. Thatâs not very subtle code for âWeâre going to struggle this year.â
Chis Beard wonât happen, but that would be my first choice. Chris Jans, Bucky McMillan, and Jarrod Calhoun. Iâm really not that high on Odom.
I agree that excitement for the next hire will be important (one of the reasons Iâm not super in on Capel), but I donât think the excitement piece is key to the NIL side of things. Our current NIL situation is by all accounts quite competitive.
Carla has not been great (or even good) at hiring but she has been good at marshalling resources, and I fully expect big donors to be not only on board with the next hire but fairly supportive financially. The basketball program has and I believe will continue to have what it needs to succeed financially.
The game changed on Tony. He ran a great development program (his development of bigs was key to the pack-line) Unfortunately, its now pickup basketball every year. Putting the roster together has to be approached that way. I feel bad for Sanchez. We have far too many players that have no business stepping foot on the floor playing major minutes for us this year. Itâs painful to watch.
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Part of me does wonder if some big donors approach Shaka and say how would you like to make $7.5M to coach UVA?
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God I hope so.
From what I can tell a lot of coaches are getting NIL commitments from schools as part of their initial negotiations these days. I imagine most of our more qualified candidates will do something similar.
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Yeah I keep hearing about how we have the NIL money we need to be top tier competitive and I look at who we have on the floor last year and this year. Just about every p4 team we played this season has better athletic talent all over the floor. We look like Gene Hackmanâs dream team.
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I mean our highest paid player is TJ Power, and I think he is pretty well compensated. When your highest paid player is a miss it basically sinks the whole team. Hard to recover resource-wise from that even if you have a lot of resources.
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I wish. Jimmy Chitwood could create his own shot. And we have no one tougher or more physical than Shooterâs son, Everett, although Ames has thrown a punch in a game!
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