Seems very similar to Sam, which is terrific. Primarily a shooter but situationally can get to the basket and finish with either hand. So, if he and Sam play together, we’re tough to defend, and if they play largely on separate units, we’re going to have a very good shooter with size on the floor at all times. Biggest question mark for the team is ball handling at speed and whether Chance can handle extended minutes for an entire season.
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If he’s already 24, how would he have any eligibility left? 5 seasons after your 19th birthday. If he just turned 24, then he turned 19 the Spring/Summer of 2021, so 5 seasons would be 21-22, 22-23, 23-24, 24-25 and 25-26.
I guess if he has a fall/winter birthday turning 19 during the 21-22 season, then the 5 seasons after would be 22-23, 23-24, 24-25, 25-26 and 26-27.
I dunno, whatever. I assume he has at most 1 year of eligibility then.
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According to this link, players entering this year can pick the old rules or the new rules. Next year, it will just be the new rules. I’m no eligibility expert, but presumably he’s at least eligible under the current rules. That is, without considering his BBL salary, which is a separate (but related) issue
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The Athletic had an article on Will Wade’s roster-building today that got into this:
But a potential holdup dates back to a memo the NCAA sent to schools in early May, reiterating existing pre-enrollment guidelines that appeared to crack down on international arrivals. (Sports Illustrated first reported the distribution of the memo.) Specifically, it stated that athletes who “entered an agreement with, competed on or received compensation from a team that participates in a league with minimum compensation that exceeds actual and necessary expenses” would not be eligible to play collegiately.
The memo listed domestic professional leagues like the NBA and NFL as examples, but many coaches worried whether that guidance would also pertain to internationals from certain leagues — especially the EuroLeague, which has a collective bargaining agreement mandating a minimum compensation of roughly $58,000 for first-year players.
While that sum pales in comparison to the seven-figure deals many high-major college players will earn next season, it also seemingly exceeds what the NCAA deems “actual and necessary expenses,” such as meals, lodging, transportation and equipment.
However, multiple high-major coaches told The Athletic that they’re not anticipating an NCAA crackdown on EuroLeague arrivals — at least not this year. That’s because the NCAA freely granted eligibility last offseason to multiple EuroLeague players, such as Duke’s Dame Sarr and Arizona’s Ivan Kharchenkov, and coaching staffs operated under that same precedent when recruiting this spring.
A wave of ineligibility rulings would not only cost multiple top 25 teams starting-caliber players, but compromise millions of dollars worth of name, image and likeness and revenue-sharing contracts that have already been agreed to.
Most coaches are now operating as if the tightening of rules around EuroLeague players — such as Niang, Santos and Dessert — will instead come next offseason, and overlap with the onset of the NCAA’s new age-based eligibility standards (plus a possible college sports bill in Congress).
Sounds like the coaches don’t totally know what the intent was behind distributing that memo or who it was meant to apply to.
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I do like these highlights better but they’re from last year. Really hard to tell what we are getting here…