Not sure why people are getting hot about that Boeheim quote. (Less so here than on other social media.) JB just said some boring banal stuff, your basic non-statement. Tony’s a great coach, some of his earlier teams had more talent, NIL is a difficult challenge… yawn.
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Not arguing the merits of NIL versus the compensation of the coaches. NIL as constructed is highly beneficial for the players. What NIL has become, with free agent type of compensation i.e. inducements to play at a school, are a challenge to manage and seem to be at odds with building a team culture. I give Miami credit for managing this but I suspect the money source at Miami will start to dry up – will be interesting to see what happens if NIL payments are declining…
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I think a lot of times people use “NIL” as a shorthand for “the new environment created by NIL and the free transfer together.” But if you actually break those two things apart, it’s the free transfer that creates the biggest headaches for coaches, turning them into GMs (as Cliff Ellis said upon retiring), or simply exhausting them (as Mike Brey said upon retiring). NIL without free transfer would just be an extra factor in HS recruiting, it wouldn’t turn your team upside down every year.
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Good points: Free Transfer + NIL = Free agency and highest bidder wins for certain players…
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I do think our improved recruiting the last couple cycles is also a biproduct of NIL and the transfer portal.
Pre-portal era, we were excellent in the transfer market as you had less outside influences on transfer players and more focus on just finding a program that can develop and win.
In the new portal era, a lot of the programs that dropped bags in high school recruiting have shifted focus to the transfer portal, where NIL seems to have a bigger influence. That has eased the competitive challenges in high school recruiting some.
We need to double down on high school recruiting, preferably also not taking transfer players that may risk our top high school talent getting frustrated and leaving. We can win there relatively more than in the the transfer market. Get old and stay old again, if that is possible.
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And I’d pair that with (1) Tony playing more guys more minutes in any given year (all else being equal) and (2) focusing more on player retention (i.e., giving kids what they want, which is usually PT, but is sometimes NIL $$).
My opinion is it’s really #2 that pisses off some old school coaches more than anything, to which my response is “boo-friggin-hoo. Work sucks. Get an LRA account and blow off some steam.”
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UVA’s basketball team does pretty well with NIL. For the median player, it’s great. They just choose not to “play the game” meaning they don’t bid on recruits.
And they’re not alone in that. I would guess half of high major programs more or less don’t play the game, granted for some it’s because they don’t have the resources. It’s really just a small group of schools in basketball that dominate the pay to play game. That’s how Arkansas is able to load up on good transfers every year. Those guys aren’t signing up to be the 13th man for nothing.
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Who are the only Hoos under Bennett to average at least 5 Free Throw Attempts per game in a season? No peeking.
- Deandre Hunter
- Ty Jerome
- Jayden Gardner
- Malcolm Brogdon
- Anthony Gill
- Akil Mitchell
- Mike Scott
- Sylven Landesberg
- Joe Harris
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Believe UVA only had 6 TOs in the first half, too.
Who is getting a pair? I know @Merch will…
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Where can you buy? I want
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Dunno… looks like the base model is $170 though…
Per Tony’s request the only thing that’ll see most of the orange is the floor.
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I just tweeted my size 11 shoe size to Matty. Zero chance that works
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Those are fire. Who do I need to holla at for a pair of 15s
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Can’t find the basketball ones, but the running ones are still available…
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Nah, that’s not the shoes you want. People will take notice when you show up to the courts in these
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Or Cav Man will tackle you and take his kicks back.
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13 year olds at the community center play in these and roast me
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