rebuilding the basketball program

[dollarbill44]

I hear you, since with NIL anyone with half a brain can see it's pay for play and there is no way to really separate NIL (aka popularity) from on court performance. This is clearly not what the inept NCAA envision when they came up with NIL but at least they had the foresight to recognize that they couldn't allow NIL to be used for recruiting or all bets are off, but they didn't see the court decision going against them so we are here.

But if we removed the very last layer of this "student athletes" playing for this team, than the players will be employees or contractors for the school. They will sign an employment contract with SU for a year or two...they are not students.

Will the real students and the community still feel the same for the team and support it the same way? I don't know.

I presume once the requirement of being a student is removed, you can sign someone for 8 years, there is no longer a 4 year eligibility thing that has to do with being a student anymore.

Red shirting makes no sense right? You are not ready why even pay you to sit? Come when you are ready to contribute.

A professional BB player can join the team. Why not? Take Melo when he couldn't get a team to sign him and forced his retirement could come back and play as a pro. So can anyone who still want a pay check to play for a "college team". It's college, G-league, Europe/Asia or NBA and one can move around.

NCAA will need to revise it's mission statement since it's no longer overseeing sports being played by student athletes.

Not sure what happens to volleyball or curling do these sports all get restructured to be employment based or outright eliminated.

Does the NCAA have competitive curling?
I think that most of the non-revenue sports will either go away or become club sports. I think the NCAA as we know it will disappear. It won't be needed in my dystopia college sports world.

I hope I'm wrong about all of this, other than maybe the NCAA going away.

 

[ORANGE OATH]

The HC is paramount in the college game.
I judge the competency of a HC by how much better a team performs in late January through February. I disliked but respected John Thompson as a HC because you could always count on his teams being better in February as he worked them to be so.
That said, since mid January we are 3 and 11 that tells me we need a new HC !
I know this isn’t a revelation but the facts support my position I believe.
Red is I’m sure a great individual, but sadly lacking in the equipment needed to win. Some of this sad state is clearly his making while others factors do contribute but in the end it is clear too many on this board SU BB isn’t relevant or fun as it exists now.