Maybe his credits didnt transfer
Makes sense, this has been bothering me for a while:
if you’re a serious basketball power with decently deep pockets and enthusiasm for NIL, scholarship vs walk-on is purely an accounting distinction. Depending on the school and circumstances, the scholarship is basically worth $40-80K/year, right? If your NIL pockets are deep enough, that’s not a problem.
I mean, if you’re looking to add someone who’s going to be the 14th player on your roster its probably not worth it (and why would you want the headache?). But if you’re at 13 and you don’t want to run off your benchwarmers for whatever reason, but an opportunity comes up to grab a starter quality player and bump your #13 player to #14 (and all your reserves down a notch) then lack of a scholarship shouldn’t really be that serious an impediment.
Good point. I hadn’t really considered this. Anyone have any data or anecdotes to show where this might actually be happening? Arkansas comes to mind as a likely culprit.
Still comes down to managing your roster and playing time expectations …but for programs who are all about 1 year at a time like Alabama, Arkansas, Kentucky, etc. this makes a lot of sense to always have as an option. I’m reminded of the Hausers leaving Marquette and UVA only having 1 schollie available at the time so they basically had no chance at Joey. If they were able to offset the difference with NIL - Hoo knows if we get both? I mean we would have run the risk of alienating Stattmann or McCorkle or McKoy. 
Could see the Johnnies making another run as well. They were heavily in the mix the first go around, have no available scholarships, and have said that they’re willing to use NIL to cover the cost of education and presumably much more for another big man. Also doesn’t hurt that he’s from Brooklyn
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Also another reason why most coaches are sticking at 11 spots filled so they have wiggle room for a no brainer addition late in the cycle. Gave Tony room to add Bliss this year with a scholarship still available.
Hearing that Flagg reclass and Duke commit is a done deal (which @Hooandtrue has said before)
And that the Boozer twins are strongly leaning Miami
So that means next year ('24), right?
I am skeptical on this one.
Flagg to '24, yep
……hopefully that would help with Kon??
Man thats amazing. His story about Prince renting his house is must read/ listen to shit
Nice, I preferred UConn of all his remaining choices. Am I becoming a Bobby Hurley fan?..
@DFresh11 I’ve never heard that. I need to look that up.