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Message: [QUOTE="EastCoast2, post: 1751712, member: 488"] There are so many ridiculous statements in this post than I honestly don't know if you're trolling or if you actually believe paying players based on minutes played is a good idea. Who's the last NCAAB player to sue his coach? How many lawsuits have there been the past 10 years? If you give a coach 100% power over a player's pay, there are going to be lawsuits everywhere. Mookie Jones would have 12 lawsuits going through the courts right now himself. You're saying the only incentive for NCAAB players is money? Did Villanova not want to win the title this year because they aren't paid cash? Was London Perrantes crying because he didn't make an additional $5k? Ridiculous. Also, you didn't address my previous questions: 1) Say a coach gets mad at a player, and sits them (JB sitting Kaleb). At what point does it turn from "you're not performing on the court" to "I'm making this personal and making sure you don't get paid". You'd open up the door to lawsuits - 18 year old kids suing their college coaches for now playing them and not allowing them to make money. 2) If Syracuse wins by 40 points and the starters don't play the entire second half, should they get half the money for that game? 3) Bigs generally play less minutes, should they get less money? 4) If a team only has one guard due to injuries/suspensions and plays 39 minutes, but is terrible, should he get the maximum amount of money? 5) A player gets injured and misses the rest of the season (McCullough, Devendorf), should they get zero salary for 50%, 75% of the season? 6) A player has to miss time for personal reasons (family death, illness), should they not get paid if they miss 2 or 3 games? I think you'd see locker rooms turned into fight clubs with cocky freshman mad that the upperclassman is taking his "promised playing time (CASH)" away, or the other way around. Players recruited and promised a starting spot, 32 mpg, let's say that's about $60k/season. They don't perform well so now they play 8 mpg, and that's only $15k. So you're promised $60k and now make $15k. I'll let you tell me how many problems that would cause. [/QUOTE]

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