Lavar Ball does it again-- BBB to create it's own basketball league

Pete Carril wrote:

Jose el Plomero wrote:

I don't think it's a bad idea, really. Leave NCAA for kids who want a degree and want to develop as players (players like Frank Kaminsky). Let the one and dones play for the junior NBA or whatever they call it.

I'm with you. Baseball is the one high profile NCAA sport that isn't constantly plagued with recruits getting under the table payoffs to attend a school, altered transcripts and grades to attain and maintain eligibility, etc. and it's also the only one of our three "major" sports that has its own developmental system that doesn't "force" high school players with no real academic interests to go to college and pretend to be students for a while. I don't know that the league will succeed financially though.

The problem is that the colleges make too much money from football and basketball to allow a legit minor league to flourish. Baseball was always set up with minor leagues before big money college sports and attending college was the norm. I think a sort of minor league for basketball and football and a slimmed down NCAA would reduce all the nefarious crap that goes on at the college level, but the NCAA will have a tough time getting its greasy paws off the football and basketball money’s

I don’t think people understand the VAST differences in consumer demand between a university affiliated product and a professional minor league product.

You can have 100k people show up for an LSU football game, but if you took those same exact players and coaches and played as the Baton Rouge Tigers minor league football team you would be lucky to have more people in the stands than the local top high school football game. Same for TV, merchandise, royalties, etc.

Podunk U. wrote:

John Utah wrote:

Cap coaching salaries at each position.

Cap administrator salaries at each position.

Keep these salaries in line with their government employee co-workers and professors. (Public schools make up the vast majority of the d1 mega programs).

Athelets must face same admission standards as all others applying to the school. No consideration given to athletic performance.

Kill the head when it comes to the money. And then don’t admit “students”’who shouldn’t be at the school, folks who could not in a million years be admitted based on their academic merit and performance.

I'll give you this, John Utah. You're an upgrade over ex-thrower and the various low IQ race baiters. When you actually put your mind to it, you draft some very sensible opinions. This one, in particular, has merit.

Ha!

Glad you agree. I’m a huge college football fan but it’s out of control at this point. It really needs to be dialed way back.

LaVar Ball is a brilliant man who displayed his wonderment for alliteration by aptly naming his children Lonzo, LiAngelo, and LaMelo.

Considering the title, I will ensure that my kids don't attend whatever 'cuse' is if they are serious about getting a decent education.

100m wrote:

LaVar Ball is a brilliant man who displayed his wonderment for alliteration by aptly naming his children Lonzo, LiAngelo, and LaMelo.

Don't forget his recently-conceived kids, Levitra and Lediculousness.

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Yes! There are no scandals in NCAA baseball because they have minor league ball to divert certain kids away from the college track. Unfortunately, now that the colleges are in the football and basketball business, it will hard to get them to give it up. It's worth billions of dollars to them.

No sponsors, no NBA arenas, not a single opening tip off. Lavar is not as likable as Al Bundy but both are shoe salesmen. This is shoe ad for BBB, nothing more. Next I expect that he will start a new sports channel to broadcast this league.

vivalarepublica wrote:

The problem is that the colleges make too much money from football and basketball to allow a legit minor league to flourish. Baseball was always set up with minor leagues before big money college sports and attending college was the norm. I think a sort of minor league for basketball and football and a slimmed down NCAA would reduce all the nefarious crap that goes on at the college level, but the NCAA will have a tough time getting its greasy paws off the football and basketball money

NCAA D-I football & basketball is a filthy business. This article goes back a few years, but it delves into the sordid world of "student-athletes". It has only gotten worse since this piece was written. Fake classes at UNC, whores for Louisville basketball recruits, rape cover ups at Baylor, academic fraud at Notre Dame...

...another one.

This initiative really outs the NCAA and may benefit the players more than essentially working for free and "going to school."

John Utah wrote:

Starting a minor league basketball league.

I’m going to say his revenue projections / market demand for this product are “optimistic”.

Coming from the dumbest idiot on LRC.

Trumper wrote:

John Utah wrote:

Starting a minor league basketball league.

I’m going to say his revenue projections / market demand for this product are “optimistic”.

Coming from the dumbest idiot on LRC.

I’m sorry that you are confused by numbers, reason, economics, etc.

You’ll feel more comfortable sticking to subjects like gender studies and victimology.

John Utah wrote:

You’ll feel more comfortable sticking to subjects like gender studies and victimology.

Don't forget Religious Studies! What the heck do they teach you in divinity school anyhow? How to diddle little boys?

John Utah wrote:

Trumper wrote:

Coming from the dumbest idiot on LRC.

I’m sorry that you are confused by numbers, reason, economics, etc.

You’ll feel more comfortable sticking to subjects like gender studies and victimology.

The weak assumptions of the dumbest idiot on LRC. Would it blow your mind if I told you that I own my own corporation and have a PhD from a top engineering school?

Trumper wrote:

John Utah wrote:

I’m sorry that you are confused by numbers, reason, economics, etc.

You’ll feel more comfortable sticking to subjects like gender studies and victimology.

The weak assumptions of the dumbest idiot on LRC. Would it blow your mind if I told you that I own my own corporation and have a PhD from a top engineering school?

It would not surprise me that you are also dishonest in addition to being ignorant.

cuseXC65 wrote:

I think this is very stupid on the players behalf but slightly hysterical because the NCAA gets outted after undercutting athlete after athlete.... However, seeing how the flashy high school athletes are these days, I could actually seeing this picking up some steam because it's very apparent that athletes aren't interested in college athletics these days when the $$$$ is in the professional league.

Is this going to become a new trend for athletes in sports that want to do 1&done for the NFL and NBA?

Disclaimer: I believe that it is a waste for athletes to give up good degrees from universities to go to the draft after a "tough" couple semesters of college

http://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/story/_/id/21827823/lavar-ball-wants-start-league-high-school-graduates

In life, human behavior and international politics, things are rarely simple and reducible to explanations and motivations that hold true over extended space, time, systems and sets of actors. Rarely can these motivations be reduced to single digit numbers.

Lavar Ball is a beacon of stability and predictability in a chaotic world. First rule of Lavar Ball, he is a businessman/promoter/promoting-Dad. Every thing he does, i.e. any news coverage of him, can be delightfully understood from this motivation. He is an academic’s dream, reducible to a finite function.

Therefore don’t confuse Lavar a Ball as a policy maker and be careful not to inject public policy discussion too soon into any conversation about Lavar Ball.

Most of all, stay in y0 Lane.

Because, you know, you might get a DQ.

Allen N. Reeves paid for the $55 million for the Clemson football leisure complex. Nothing out of Dabo Sweeney's pocket.

Jim Harbaugh talked a donor into sending Michigan football to Italy for spring break.

Who are these gullible donors?