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Message: [QUOTE="SWC75, post: 4491785, member: 289"] PART 2 The new President of the NCAA is Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker. “Just what we needed: a politician.” [That may have been the point: [URL="https://theathletic.com/4006731/2022/12/15/ncaa-president-charlie-baker-political-career/"]A governor gets the controls to the NCAA's delicate politics game[/URL] ] “I just don’t think it matters. The power will continue to go to the conferences and committees. The NCAA is good at running tournaments and that’s what they should do. Enforcement has faded away. It’s not relevant anymore. You can’t take a player out to a restaurant, but he gets $100,000 NIL. Academics are up to the schools. Major changes have come. We are now in a period of adjustment. Enforcement took years to get nowhere.” How about Jay Bilas as NCAA president? “He thinks he is. He can’t do anything about the transfer portal or NIL. Let compliance go to the conferences. Run tournaments - it’s what you’re good at.” On bowl games and the players who opt out: “The only ones that matter are the championship games. The others are irrelevant. There’s not enough money to go around.” Coach Boeheim never met Mike Leach but he admired him. “He got a horrible deal at Texas tech. He was an innovative guy with the passing attack. He was an eccentric, like some coaches are…. He was a smart guy, a lawyer. It’s sad to lose anyone in their prime.” On baseball money: “Some players are making $30 million a year and can’t even play”. The Yankees got another pitcher, Carlos Rodon, for $160 million. “What difference does it make? They can’t spend the money they are making. They had to get Judge. They couldn’t show up without him. Even if he’d had a bad year, he would have gotten $250 million. But Houston got better again. They will be really tough.” Gomez pointed out that 12/15/80 is the anniversary of the Dave Winfield contract. He got $15 million – for 10 years. It seemed ridiculous at the time. Going around the ACC: NC State beat Furman. North Carolina played the Citadel for the first time in years and ended their losing streak. Clemson beat USC Upstate. App State was up by 1 with 2 seconds left to Wake Forest and lost, on a botched inbounds play and a buzzer shot, (JB chuckled at that – it happened to us last year). Louisville family won a game – over Western Kentucky. “Pitt is good this year, a really improved team with transfers who are playing at a really high level.” Will Connecticut go undefeated in the Big East? “They have two big guys, four guards, some really good forwards. They have a Virginia tech transfer, Nahiem Alleyne, who had been a good player for them, who isn’t playing.” (Actually, he’s playing 22 minutes a game but is scoring less – 5.9ppg – as the team’s 6th man.) “They may be the best in the country, their best in a long, long time. They are the threat to win the whole thing.” [Wouldn’t SU fans love to see a 5th UCONN championship!] “Villanova is down. Marquette is good. Creighton has lost 5 straight. They (The Big East) are not as strong as they’ve been. Arizona is good. UCLA looked really good against Maryland. Kansas I good. Virginia is really good. Duke and Texas are good.” What about the allegations against Texas coach Chris Beard? “If he’s a good coach, they’ll figure out how to keep him. It’s a sad thing, like that Buffalo kicker they let go and then the charges were dropped. The UCal board of regents has given permission for UCLA to jump to the Big Ten. “They’ll get an extra $40 million a year vs. $10 million more in expenses and some tough travel. Big ten teams will go out to the coast once and play both UCLA and USC. But they will have to go across the country 5-6 times. The Olympic sports will do the same so we can get a game between USC and Rutgers. It’s a hardship for the athletes. But money’s involved so they don’t care.” December 15th is the anniversary of Eric Devendorf’s injury, (12/15/2007, in a 125-75 win over East Tennessee State). “Rehab is a lonely feeling. For 9 months it’s two hours a day of lifting weights and other receiving treatments without touching a basketball.” 13-year-old Charley Woods, (Tiger’s son), has a perfect golf swing. Should he receive so much media attention at that age. “If the media thinks it’s a story, they’ll cover it. He plays like a 25-year-old. When I was 13 years old the best player on our basketball team was a center who was 5-6 or 5-7. Five years later, he was still 5-6 or 5-7 and he still is.“ About his talking about Pat’s call on Orange Nation yesterday – we thought he doesn’t listen to those shows. “I tell my people not to tell me what is aid on the radio, but I happened to be in the car.” [I guess his car won’t run unless the radio is on.] [/QUOTE]

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