Time to Start Recruiting from the G League

[blueheretic]

Everyone else is doing it.

Why not us?

Go get a PG and a good 3 PT shooting small Forward.

Skal Labissiere still has eligibility, doesn't he.

Maybe grab Chucky Hepburn or Caleb Love.

I'm kind of jokin'.

[South jones]

Why not, if you can't beat'em, joined. I ain't proud

[Jload]

Didn't their used to be a rule that you had to be enrolled in regular classes at start of the semester to play in it. How did NIL change that?

[KentuckyWild2020]

Agreed, like yesterday...

[WeWant9]

It is absolutely wild that this is an actual possibility.

[westerncat]

The NCAA really dropped the ball on this NIL and let's see if they make a decision on this. It is getting out of hand and if the NCAA does nothing it is going be a joke in CBB.

[Sean]

The NCAA continues to drop the ball but not fully thinking through new rules. They need some way of policing this and the rampant tampering with NIL.

[bthaunert]

The problem with the NCAA is not what is happening now. The problem is they put their head in the sand and hid behind the phrases "amateur" and "student athlete" until they were blue in the face for years. When Jeremy Bloom was denied making endorsement money through his Olympic skiing career because he would forfeit his eligibility in college football, they took a stand and weren't budging. When they fought for years in court against Ed O'Bannon because the NCAA licensed the likeness of players for the EA sports game and didn't want the players to benefit from that. So, instead of trying to fix the situation and come to some logical sense, they stayed the course as if it was the 1940's.

IMO, that's why we are in the mess we are in. Would it have eventually gotten to this...probably. But it wouldn't have all happened over the course of 2 years. If you think about college basketball, 2 of the top 3 (NIL and no transfer restrictions - freshman eligibility being the other) biggest changes to the sport off the court happened at the same time and it's been a firestorm ever since.

[Catsrock]

The problem with the NCAA is not what is happening now. The problem is they put their head in the sand and hid behind the phrases "amateur" and "student athlete" until they were blue in the face for years. When Jeremy Bloom was denied making endorsement money through his Olympic skiing career because he would forfeit his eligibility in college football, they took a stand and weren't budging. When they fought for years in court against Ed O'Bannon because the NCAA licensed the likeness of players for the EA sports game and didn't want the players to benefit from that. So, instead of trying to fix the situation and come to some logical sense, they stayed the course as if it was the 1940's.

IMO, that's why we are in the mess we are in. Would it have eventually gotten to this...probably. But it wouldn't have all happened over the course of 2 years. If you think about college basketball, 2 of the top 3 (NIL and no transfer restrictions - freshman eligibility being the other) biggest changes to the sport off the court happened at the same time and it's been a firestorm ever since.

I agree with every word—except that it would have come to this eventually. Congress would NEVER have intervened if the NCAA had made any sort of concessions for player benefit. They stepped in when it was blatantly obvious the NCAA had buried their head in the sand and were going to keep stuffing their pockets on the star power of the athletes. Greed and ignorance spoiled college sports. I still watch. But it sure ain’t the same.

[Trueblujr]

The problem with the NCAA is not what is happening now. The problem is they put their head in the sand and hid behind the phrases "amateur" and "student athlete" until they were blue in the face for years. When Jeremy Bloom was denied making endorsement money through his Olympic skiing career because he would forfeit his eligibility in college football, they took a stand and weren't budging. When they fought for years in court against Ed O'Bannon because the NCAA licensed the likeness of players for the EA sports game and didn't want the players to benefit from that. So, instead of trying to fix the situation and come to some logical sense, they stayed the course as if it was the 1940's.

IMO, that's why we are in the mess we are in. Would it have eventually gotten to this...probably. But it wouldn't have all happened over the course of 2 years. If you think about college basketball, 2 of the top 3 (NIL and no transfer restrictions - freshman eligibility being the other) biggest changes to the sport off the court happened at the same time and it's been a firestorm ever since.

Not sure, but seems like there must have been some exception for multi-sport baseball players too, because there have been a number of kids who got drafted by an MLB team out of high school, tried minor leagues for a bit then was able to quit that and come back to college to play football or basketball. But in my humble opinion, I think the whole amateurism thing was killed once they started letting pro athletes compete in the Olympics.

[bthaunert]

Not sure, but seems like there must have been some exception for multi-sport baseball players too, because there have been a number of kids who got drafted by an MLB team out of high school, tried minor leagues for a bit then was able to quit that and come back to college to play football or basketball. But in my humble opinion, I think the whole amateurism thing was killed once they started letting pro athletes compete in the Olympics.

The difference between the guys drafted in MLB and Bloom is they were being paid a salary in a different sport, which was fine, but he was trying to get paid through endorsements for skiing, which wasn't ok. It never made sense and sure as heck doesn't now.