jfish26 wrote: ↑Thu Oct 18, 2018 10:40 am
pdub wrote: ↑Thu Oct 18, 2018 10:35 am
We've had this argument.
Unfortunately (fortunately) Vega deleted that massive thread.
I don't want the focus of college basketball athletes to be contracts, deals, endorsements. And it doesn't need to be. Fans follow schools not individual players. We don't need the top 50 players every year to still have an entertaining season. I want more four year kids with degrees than one and dones. Logistically how do you make this money funneling even across the board? Will some schools completely loose competitively and have to disband because they can't keep up with larger schools ( no it doesn't already happen to the scale that it would - and with pressure towards a system I've been pushing to, it certainly wouldn't get any worse )? Is Title IX an issue ( of course it will be ) ? Will recruiting now just become contract negotiations? Will agents be hanging out at AFH practice? Will school even be a thing at all? Why is this any different than the NBA? If I want to watch the NBA, i'll watch the NBA. There is something to be said about the purity of playing the game because you like it. I want more of those kinda players ( and the argument of 'thats impossible, everyone is about the money!' will fall on deaf ears with me because I simply disagree with that ). There's history and lore and pride and those things are actual things and are more important than cash flow.
Do you enjoy last season less now, knowing that Silvio (or someone around him) got paid?
I can't go back in time and take the joy out of watching those games but now at this moment, yea, for sure.
There's a black eye.
If it's found out that those involved at Kansas were responsible with getting him and his people tens of thousands of dollars, then absolutely, it's not as good a season.
In a very PhD microcosm sense, if I watch a single basketball game, say Svi Myhkailiuk's travel vs ksu, it isn't as enjoyable to me after the fact if we won with some controversy then had we won without it.