Bye-bye College Basketball. NBA puts nail in NCAA one and done with 125K

westsouthrunner wrote:

CallMeDoctor wrote:

After paying their agent his percentage, supporting a group of hang arounds from the hood, buying a. Lambo, paying alimony and child support, then paying taxes, he'll still be better off than a college freshman.

Just want to let you know the cheapest Lamborghini is still a good bit over $200k.

Nobody in the G League is buying, they're leasing.

who cares if they don't pay players?

Not me.

I hope they do away with the unnecessary funding of college sports.

They should also design degrees to be completed in 3 years. 4 years is too long and too expensive. Sports are unnecessary. Form a club in your own time.

Problem is its an opportunity to get more into a school that wouldn't, even though not everyone benefits from going to school.

As an aside, I was full ride at a D 1 school back in the day.

Higher education is now just a scam, designed to fund monuments and keep the plebs giggling.

Get your education and get out. No one cares if you took astronomy, unless you're an astronomer.

Don;'t accumulate debt that will hamstring you for years

That Liar John Denver wrote:

westsouthrunner wrote:

Just want to let you know the cheapest Lamborghini is still a good bit over $200k.

Nobody in the G League is buying, they're leasing.

Good point.

CallMeDoctor wrote:

ljlkk wrote:

Are you kidding me? Every 18 year old needs a six figure bank account. Good on the NBA.

After paying their agent his percentage, supporting a group of hang arounds from the hood, buying a. Lambo, paying alimony and child support, then paying taxes, he'll still be better off than a college freshman.

Yes because a Lambo costs less than $125k.

This is just going to keep the black community at the bottom of society. Now all these high school stars will forgo a college degree to make $125k for a few years. Then they will flame out after a and be in debt from spending more money than they can make with the hope they will make millions one day. They’ll be a 22 year old drug addict living on the streets. Then they black community will keep blaming the white man (who gets an education) for keeping them down.

When will they wake up?

CallMeDoctor wrote:

ljlkk wrote:

Are you kidding me? Every 18 year old needs a six figure bank account. Good on the NBA.

After paying their agent his percentage, supporting a group of hang arounds from the hood, buying a. Lambo, paying alimony and child support, then paying taxes, he'll still be better off than a college freshman.

Why are you slinging this trash around here? This caters to stereotypes that weaken our society.

$125K is a joke. It doesn't come close to compensating for the publicity and TV time they would get at the NCAA at a top program. If I was a seriously talented senior in high school with no intention of getting a degree, I'd still do the one-and-done at Kentucky or Duke. The publicity and name-recognition that they will gain at Kentucky or Duke far outweighs the $125K to play minor-league bball. The guys that will take the $125K are the ones that don't get recruited to a top-10 program. So, there will be a further separation between the talent at schools like Kentucky and Duke versus the rest of the NCAA.

To get the top guys to play "minor league ball" for a year or two, I think they have to pay at least $500K.

125 is a joke wrote:

$125K is a joke. It doesn't come close to compensating for the publicity and TV time they would get at the NCAA at a top program. If I was a seriously talented senior in high school with no intention of getting a degree, I'd still do the one-and-done at Kentucky or Duke. The publicity and name-recognition that they will gain at Kentucky or Duke far outweighs the $125K to play minor-league bball. The guys that will take the $125K are the ones that don't get recruited to a top-10 program. So, there will be a further separation between the talent at schools like Kentucky and Duke versus the rest of the NCAA.

To get the top guys to play "minor league ball" for a year or two, I think they have to pay at least $500K.

+1. This is it. True. The top 10 HS all-americans will laugh at 125K when they will get serious TV coverage and visibility at the NCAA for a year or two before going to the NBA (plus still get the same compensation under-the-table). However, this only holds for like the top 10 or maybe 15 guys coming out of HS each year.

the end wrote:

The NBA G League will start offering $125K to top high school graduates as an alternative to college.

That's what the NCAA gets for not paying players.

best thing to happen to ncaa basketball! Maybe we will see who can coach instead of who can recruit(buy) kids.

Pay the players???? They would get PAID while they hone their skills --- hoping to make it as a pro?

Why don't the colleges pay the people majoring in education, or accounting, or med school?

Hey, no one forces you to play college ball....if you want to get paid ----- simply go pro. Some of them

would be well compensated as a pro while 98% won't get a dime. Hit the books, kid.

[quote]sillyman wrote:

who cares if they don't pay players?

Not me.

I hope they do away with the unnecessary funding of college sports.

I agree with you.... perhaps the only sports giving out scholarship money are Olympic sports that don't have pro

leagues to go on to.......you would be helping the non pro kid while also helping America to field future Olympic teams...

track, swimming, etc....

125 is a joke wrote:

$125K is a joke. It doesn't come close to compensating for the publicity and TV time they would get at the NCAA at a top program. If I was a seriously talented senior in high school with no intention of getting a degree, I'd still do the one-and-done at Kentucky or Duke. The publicity and name-recognition that they will gain at Kentucky or Duke far outweighs the $125K to play minor-league bball. The guys that will take the $125K are the ones that don't get recruited to a top-10 program. So, there will be a further separation between the talent at schools like Kentucky and Duke versus the rest of the NCAA.

To get the top guys to play "minor league ball" for a year or two, I think they have to pay at least $500K.

I disagree.

Kids are professional rated by scouts starting at the age of 10. Publicity and name-recognition are great for late bloomers, but top-tier youth basketball players are wellknown by those who actually matter (scouts, coaches, gm) before their airtime.

It may end many of the one and dones but it will not end the financial undercover payments that the current ncaa trial has shown is out of control. The ncaa basketball tournament plus yearly tv revenue is well over a billion. They will either offer more than 125k to the best or pay the next line of players who are left after the one and dones. Too much money involved not to get to the star players whether it be legal or illegal. P.S. The trial has shown that the shoe companies will leave the schools out of future under the table payments. They will take care of it themselves.....

I think this move now requires today’s top high school players (and their families, trainers, etc.) to put their money where their mouths have been for the past 7 years or so.

Every spring I hear the top players lamenting that they have to spend 9 all expenses paid months as one of the most popular kids at a flagship state school, a time during which they will barely be required to attend any of their Zoology 1A lectures, and during which substantial amounts of money will be funneled back to their families in various forms. They’ll tell you that they “don’t really care about all that college sh!t” and are ready to “commit to the professional lifestyle 100%”.

But until now we haven’t really gotten to see if they’d take the anonymity of the G League, where you must live like a pro to succeed, over the bright lights of P5 basketball because “they forced me to go to college”. Now another opportunity has been provided, and we’ll get to see who’s really just talking when it comes to this “I want to be great more than anything else” stuff.

Z williamson wrote:

Eh. 125k that they have to pay taxes on is about the same as the top 10 guys get paid under the table to play a year in college. Plus they are surrounded by prime 18-21 year old trim begging to give it up in college. I don’t see this moving the needle much.

Your middle sentence was right on the money. Imagine being the starter of a big time program versus telling someone you play in the D league. Or is it B league?