I can't see anyone taking Kornnuts off our roster. I thought Newton was out of eligibility?I fully expect to see Kojenets leave. I would be very surprised to see Newton come back. Everyone else is up in the air.
I've heard through the grapevine that Konjenets will not be asked back. Newton started at a JUCO, so he could have another year if he wanted.I can't see anyone taking Kornnuts off our roster. I thought Newton was out of eligibility?
I've watched a couple of his Laramie High School games. Haven't seen any of his AAU games. It's always difficult to judge Wyoming high school basketball because the overall competition level is not great.Anyone watched Summers play in person?
Guy is a crap player. Should've never been on our roster. Next.Interesting development out of Texas: Former Wyoming recruit Dominic Pangonis is in the portal after one season at Stephen F. Austin.
Judging from the results for the season, I guess that’s a good thing?Not surprising. Sunny will probably have to rebuild the entire roster for next season.
I think we all kind of know how this is going to turn out.So far, I think Sunny could upgrade each of these. With the exception of Obi. This is the new norm. Rebuild every year and hope to catch lightning in a bottle once in a while and get a run at the NCAA tournament. It sucks, but there’s nothing coaches or ADs can do about it right now. It’ll be interesting to follow up with the players that chased money for 4-5 years in college once they’re done. How many have a degree or career to fall back on? How many make it to the pro level? How many are broke within the first 2 years without college sports? And how many coaches are going to just keep going when an 18 year old gets a guaranteed $7 million for just showing up on campus, making several more dollars than they are, with no real ramifications? Like the kid going to byu next year. That’s freakin’ crazy to me! Should make an interesting documentary for Netflix down the road.
I would be very interested in the data on this. The scenario you are describing might be something that has changed in the last 30 or so years.I think we all kind of know how this is going to turn out.
Giving hundreds of thousands of dollars (or in some cases millions of dollars) to 18 and 19 year old young men to play sports with little to no guidance from anyone around them...what could go wrong?
My "guess"...most of them won't play professionally, and of those that do, most will have a very short career. Most of them won't obtain a college degree. Most of them will be in a bad to mildly below average life situation by age 30.
Nah. They will all sock it away in S&P funds and have a solid nest egg by 35. 18 and 19 year olds always make prudent financial decisions.I think we all kind of know how this is going to turn out.
Giving hundreds of thousands of dollars (or in some cases millions of dollars) to 18 and 19 year old young men to play sports with little to no guidance from anyone around them...what could go wrong?
My "guess"...most of them won't play professionally, and of those that do, most will have a very short career. Most of them won't obtain a college degree. Most of them will be in a bad to mildly below average life situation by age 30.
I'm not sure where to find the most up to date hard data, but there are fairly recent articles that paint a pretty bleak picture in regards to how professional athletes do financially in the long-term.I would be very interested in the data on this. The scenario you are describing might be something that has changed in the last 30 or so years.
The conversation about the "right" way to pursue athletics has really transformed in my lifetime. When I was very young, professional athletes often had regular jobs outside of their professional sports careers. During the '80s and '90s we saw the full transition into full-time professionalism in athletics. There were many cautionary tales during that transition. The money exploded...lessons were learned. I think those lessons have seeped into the business of athletics in a way that is hard to overestimate. Young, gifted athletes are much more mature and have a much better approach to that side of things in general than they did a generation ago when this was much newer. There are still examples of guys being silly with money and all that...but I think the direction is generally that they do better than they used to.
I'm not sure where to find the most up to date hard data, but there are fairly recent articles that paint a pretty bleak picture in regards to how professional athletes do financially in the long-term.
I remember an article from Forbes around 2015 reporting that 80% of retired NFL players go "broke" within three years of being out of the league.
Poor access to competent financial planning advice, a significantly warped perception for how long their athletics careers would last, lack of planning for a second career after sports, and hanger-on's (family, friends, girlfriends, etc) were all problems in 2015 that still exist today.
The average NIL deal for a college football player in a power conference is $39,944. There are a ton of players jumping around from college to college simply for an extra $10-20k per year. Most of the players at that level are never going to the NFL, and their athletic careers will likely end when their NCAA eligibility runs out. I have to image that transferring between schools 2-3 times is probably not friendly to obtaining a degree - at least not one that would actually make you employable in the modern work force.
I hear a lot of talk about how NIL and the new profit-sharing model are just free market capitalism finally benefiting the "working class" players instead of the well-off university, conference, and NCAA executives. That may be true in the short-term, but I'd be willing to bet that in the long-term you will see ex-college athletes have worse long-term financial outcomes as a direct result of the money available to them in college athletics. That really shouldn't be a surprise to anyone. We've long marveled at how many lottery winners end up worse off financially a decade after their lottery win. In my opinion, NIL will not be a net positive for college athletes, but I'm probably in the minority when it comes to that opinion.