2024-2025 B1G Basketball Thread

[ELA]

And there it is. Chucky is gone. My guess is MSU.



I'm done with college hoops. Fuck it.

If it's $1.4 million, it ain't MSU.  They are already out on Trey Townsend because of the price tag, which is less than $1.4 million

[ELA]

Not a chance. I just read Louisville offered him $1.4 Mil.

He'll need some of that money to cover up the large Badger tattoo on his arm.

Many people wanted this shit (paying players) to happen, including some here. I hope you/they are happy.

B1G CFB51 board getting closer to a being a cooking/travel/news message board every day.

Paying the players isn't the issue.  Removing the transfer sit out rule is.  If they were worried that their own eligibility rules don't hold up in court, what's keeping a kid from playing in college forever.  Obviously not the stars, but guys like a Cassius Winston?

[bayareabadger]

Rumblings are $800k from Louisville. 

I’m a bit less irked than I could be. I’m kind of impressed that is out there for a player like him. 

We’ve come a long way from coaches telling kids they’re replaceable. 

[FearlessF]

Matt Rhule says he prefers NFL Free Agency

after the player signs, the contract is out there for everyone to see

an agent asks for 1.4 but then the player signs for $800K, you know what the actual price was
the shady agents get a reputation 

nothing in NIL is above the table or public knowledge

[847badgerfan]

Rumblings are $800k from Louisville.

I’m a bit less irked than I could be. I’m kind of impressed that is out there for a player like him.

We’ve come a long way from coaches telling kids they’re replaceable.

I still think he ends up at MSU with his Omaha buddy.

[bayareabadger]

I still think he ends up at MSU with his Omaha buddy.

Why wouldn’t Louisville just toss in another $800k for the other fella?

[bayareabadger]

Matt Rhule says he prefers NFL Free Agency

after the player signs, the contract is out there for everyone to see

an agent asks for 1.4 but then the player signs for $800K, you know what the actual price was
the shady agents get a reputation

nothing in NIL is above the table or public knowledge

It makes sense that he would. 

They’ve got a cap and great handle on leverage in all this. Plus the perceived penalty for owners leaning cheaper is much lower. 

[ELA]

Rumors are that everyone has 

It makes sense that he would.

They’ve got a cap and great handle on leverage in all this. Plus the perceived penalty for owners leaning cheaper is much lower.

Plus, collective bargaining and all.  Allowing the players to unionize is the only thing that can save this.

And I stand by that the NCAA should be allowed to set their own rules for eligibility to play, without hampering freedom of movement and freedom to earn.  You put no rails on NIL, but set it at 4 years and done, and you sit out if you transfer.  Allow unlimited transfers, and unlimited redshirt years.  If you want to take 8 years to get through college, go for it.  That seems like a fine solution to me.  The funny thing is that the transfer portal was to keep giving the players everything other than getting paid, and then they eventually got that, and the transfer portal made it even easier.

I think what eventually puts guardrails on this is the fact that the schools get pissed that donors money is going directly to the players, rather than a donation to the school to have a weight room named after them.

[847badgerfan]

Why wouldn’t Louisville just toss in another $800k for the other fella?

I guess they could. But is he worth it? 

Storr committed to Kansas today. The NBA thing was bullshit from the start.

Essegian is probably going to end up at Indiana. Defense not required there.

Who knows where the Gus Bust will land.

Lindsey is at South Dakona State now, where he belonged in the first place.

3 walk-on's are also in the portal. OK then.

Gard has to build a whole new team - and who knows if there will be more departures. Blackwell, Crowl and Klesmit could easily find $$$ out there at this point.

At this point I really don't care and I'm not alone. Both of my friends still in Madison are not renewing their season tickets.

Wisconsin is now just a feeder school for those with huge NIL money available for basketball.

The courts have ruined the game because the NCAA shit the bed.

[bayareabadger]

Rumors are that everyone has Plus, collective bargaining and all.  Allowing the players to unionize is the only thing that can save this.

And I stand by that the NCAA should be allowed to set their own rules for eligibility to play, without hampering freedom of movement and freedom to earn.  You put no rails on NIL, but set it at 4 years and done, and you sit out if you transfer.  Allow unlimited transfers, and unlimited redshirt years.  If you want to take 8 years to get through college, go for it.  That seems like a fine solution to me.  The funny thing is that the transfer portal was to keep giving the players everything other than getting paid, and then they eventually got that, and the transfer portal made it even easier.

I think what eventually puts guardrails on this is the fact that the schools get pissed that donors money is going directly to the players, rather than a donation to the school to have a weight room named after them.

They hung onto the amateurism bit too long. Tying student athlete rules to that of regular students was a disaster when people outside the system took a look at it.

Shoot, even the forced year sitting out used to have some BS amateurism underpinning. You might have had a prayer with sport management, all of the pros had long had an extreme level of roster fluidity.

[847badgerfan]

I think this is a free article.

Flood: Get Used to It (247sports.com)

[Brutus Buckeye]

So the basketball schools are going to develop all of their basketball recruits, and then the football schools are going to swoop in and buy up all the ones that pan out into great players? 

Nice! 

[847badgerfan]

Someone posted this on the 247 Badger board.

How Two Wisconsin Basketball Players Decided To Take On The NCAA | Only A Game (wbur.org)

[MaximumSam]

Felix Okpara to the portal. Feels messy in Columbus