How is it dumb? How much money does a national championship bring to a university? How much easier is it to get good players when a team has success?
If I were Judah, I’d enter the portal field offers and if he wants to come back make us match it.
Why would they care where he gets drafted? They know what will help them and what won't. A lot better than some internet poster. They also know what the market rate is. I would also be surprised if it is as much as 5 million but I don't know what they market rate is. Neither does anyone else here.
Hunter Dickinson doesn’t guarantee a championship though, so it’s largely irrelevant how much money a championship could bring on its own. Even if he did make that much of a difference, you would still need to risk adjust the value of a player based on their likelihood of delivering that goal, I doubt it comes out to 5 million.
Well, nobody that posts
Doesn’t guarantee a championship, but we’d be closer to one with him than Carey, Patterson and Hima combined.
But probably didn't pay melo $5M (or $3M when adjusted for inflation)
True or not, a conversation can be had about an outrageous value. If he doesn't get 5M, it only makes it even clearer he was never, and should never be, worth 5M
And if we wouldn't pay him someone would’ve and where would we have been? NIT?
Agreed. I don’t believe the numbers being thrown around at all.
The point is not that players have no worth. It is that they aren't worth exuberant amounts, especially if you're basing their value off the expectation of delivering a championship (a highly unlikely event). In a world where everyone has infinite money, yeah outbid who ever you have to get the best team together (like the NBA essentially) but we, and many other schools, do not have infinite money which means you need to risk adjust your valuations or else you will find yourself getting a negative return on your investment. If you think a championship is worth 30M, hunter would need to improve your chances pretty drastically to command 5M of that 30M. Someone might pay that, and good for them, doesnt make it any less dumb (and melo is FAR better than hunter will ever be).
You don’t think Melo was worth 3 million to the university and the city?
I think melo is NOW worth $3M, because he delivered what we desired, but that doesn't mean he was worth it in 2002. Now that you know the results of your investment, of course anyone would make that investment, because there is no risk and the goods are in hand. If someone offered me the chance to go back in time and invest 10K in Netflix in 2002 I would do it in a heart beat, but if you asked me to invest 10K today, I am not sure I would take that advice because the future is inherently unclear and it is unlikely I will see a 2000% return in 20 years.
So you don’t want to compete with other schools for players? You realize that’s a death sentence for the program right? It’s a hell of a lot more ballsy sitting back and not opening the wallet.
What are you even talking about? Not once have I said they shouldn't invest in players.
Do not agree at all. UK and Duke were buying blue chip prospects who were only going to college because they couldn't be drafted by NBA teams. That got them fewer championships than UConn. Top-25 teams, sure, but UVA, Nova, Michigan, Baylor, etc. were doing just as well without getting 4-5 of the top-15 recruits every season.
Baseball doesn’t have a salary cap, small market teams at least have arbitration to control a player for years, and has the ability to trade players. How many players stick around the small markets when their value goes up? Not many.
