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31st pick in 2023 NBA Draft will be suiting up for Baylor…

Last I knew the Knicks held his rights and he played on their summer league team. Similar skillset to a young big on the Knicks, Hukporti. I would love to see him develop and be an asset for the Knicks.
 
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Oakland said:
Wow! I know college FB and BB are a crapshow but I didn’t think it would get this bad. What’s next, retired NBA players on college teams?
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I wouldn't be surprised!
 
DomeFoam44 said:
A former NBA draft pick being immediately eligible to play college basketball is absurd even by today’s anything goes standards. The NCAA has turned eligibility into a loose suggestion. This crosses into outright nonsense. Transfers are pretty much automatic now, fine that’s the era we’re in. But this isn’t a transfer. This is someone who literally went through the NBA Draft process and is now strolling back into college basketball like it's some kind of rec league. It makes a mockery of whatever “line” is supposed to exist between college and professional basketball.
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It wasn't long ago that the concept was to share tee shirt revenue with a player to make sure he wasn't being used by the money grabbing schools and the NCAA. It was a fair concept that has gone way beyond any sense of reasonableness or proportion.
Initially a lot of fans could not or would not accept the fact that
play for pay was becoming the norm. The reality has left the college game in chaos and struggling to find an identity with no idea of what normal or acceptable practices are or should be.

I'm happy to have enjoyed the old days, even with its warts and scandals. What we have now is an abomination.
 
Stop all the complaining. College sports has been “corrupt” with paid ringers from day one. Check out the stories about the first crew regatta between Harvard and Yale on Lake Winnipisaukee. Paid ringers. There was a qb who played for Pitt and two or three weeks he was “enrolled” for another school and started for his new school.
 
RyanCuse44 said:
This has been one of the stupidest things the NCAA has done. Just disband these fools.
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Of course Baylor and most colleges are members of the NCAA, so this supposedly is what the schools.
 
DomeFoam44 said:
Your response has nothing to do with the point. Dragging out 1800s rowing scandals and some Pitt QB doesn’t justify a former NBA draft pick waltzing back into college hoops. That’s not corruption, that’s just nonsense. There’s supposed to be a line between college and professional basketball. Going through the NBA Draft process and then walking right back into college with zero delay erases that line completely. Eligibility rules are a joke. You’re talking about ancient history like it somehow excuses this circus but it doesn’t.
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No, I am saying it has always been a circus. There are examples from the first day of collegiate competition. This is just the latest iteration. Everybody was chasing a buck from day one and it continues today. The greed of the schools is what has now resulted in acknowleged professionals playing for colleges and universities. I liked the good old days too, you know when SU might have had one televised game. Those days are gone forever. And it is not for everyone.
 
ar inj said:
No, I am saying it has always been a circus. There are examples from the first day of collegiate competition. This is just the latest iteration. Everybody was chasing a buck from day one and it continues today. The greed of the schools is what has now resulted in acknowleged professionals playing for colleges and universities. I liked the good old days too, you know when SU might have had one televised game. Those days are gone forever. And it is not for everyone.
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From the "first day of collegiate competition" is an overreach. Since college sports in the 50's, college sports has become more of a fan favorite and a money maker of sorts. Along with that came the inevitable cheating (money and other perks to the top level players) which undermined the whole concept of amateurism.

But to say that today's world of openly paying all levels of talent in an extremely overpriced market is a natural extension of those years is a reach too far. Players today are hired and fired on a yearly basis, and the ones who are looking for greener pastures just hand in their notice and move on. That concept is unique to today's world only.
 
OCESIP said:
From the "first day of collegiate competition" is an overreach. Since college sports in the 50's, college sports has become more of a fan favorite and a money maker of sorts. Along with that came the inevitable cheating (money and other perks to the top level players) which undermined the whole concept of amateurism.

But to say that today's world of openly paying all levels of talent in an extremely overpriced market is a natural extension of those years is a reach too far. Players today are hired and fired on a yearly basis, and the ones who are looking for greener pastures just hand in their notice and move on. That concept is unique to today's world only.
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Read up on “tramp athletes” and Edgar Glass the SU tackle who moved up to play for Yale. This is just a return to the good old days. They have made college athletics great again
 

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