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Disgusting

From Massachusetts and ends up at Utah Prep? There are tons of much more respected basketball prep schools on the east coast much closer to home.

I think his decision to play for BYU was made some time ago.
 
Utah Prep is outside of St. George so it's not far from Vegas. They are a top 10 basketball prep school in the country. They have more than just this kid.

I am just wondering at what point the people in charge at Wyoming will wake up a realize Wyoming basketball and football cannot compete with these type of dollars. I think the Freedom Caucus may stop funding the University the way we have seen in the past. Plus the loss of the Pac12 programs, you have all the buyout $$ going to UNLV and Air Force and UW will be in a really perilous spot when it comes to "college" athletics.
 
doreno5 said:
I hate what is happening to college sports.
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It’s no longer under any guise of amateurism at the D1 level. I struggle to get excited about a sport with 18 year old kids making more than my household income. I actually am finding myself getting more into D2 sports again; those kids are lucky to have a half scholarship for their tuition fees and are generally in school for the right reasons. When I was in undergrad (at a D2 school), I didn’t know a single athlete who didn’t value the education and their relationships with classmates pretty much equally with their athletic collegiate careers.
 
Money without consequences going to teenagers being represented by snakes and power conference entitlement has killed college sports. The lack of foresight by the NCAA every year is astounding. NIL is a disguised way of “pay for play”, the SEC and BIG10 control the media deals and everyone else scrambles to stay in the game. This kid might play for BYU for a year, but we all know a commitment isn’t worth anything these days. Someone else can still approach him and pay more well before he even puts on a practice jersey for the Blue. And, with the portal, after one year, he can bounce to a better team or conference.
 
Every Wyoming fan I know hates stuff like this...lots of talk on here about "this is the death of college sports". Coaches like Nick Saban have been pretty clear about how they feel about it. Editorials have been written about the death of "amateurism"...and yet..what actually is happening? Money made by the marquis programs, coaches, and now players continues to spiral upwards. This is never coming crashing down is it?
 
307bball said:
Every Wyoming fan I know hates stuff like this...lots of talk on here about "this is the death of college sports". Coaches like Nick Saban have been pretty clear about how they feel about it. Editorials have been written about the death of "amateurism"...and yet..what actually is happening? Money made by the marquis programs, coaches, and now players continues to spiral upwards. This is never coming crashing down is it?
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there's no brakes on the system, so no. imagine the nfl with no salary cap of any kind. That would get wild pretty fast
 
laxwyo said:
there's no brakes on the system, so no. imagine the nfl with no salary cap of any kind. That would get wild pretty fast
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These brakes you describe...I assume that they are things like:

Salary caps
Collective bargaining
Revenue Sharing
Free agency rules

Some legal eagles on here who know way more than me have been very pessimistic on the chances that universities would get into the tangle of classifying athletes as employees, thus opening up the possibility of applying these "brakes. This is really weird territory.... you generally have a group of schools that have an alumni donor base who have made the decision to buy in to this new world....and it happened very quickly with very little push back from these donors. The push back has been from some old-school coaches and some nostalgic media types. I think it's fair to ask "why is there so much willingness, all of a sudden, to funnel so much money to these athletes?" I actually think the programs in question have always had donors willing to "buy" talent ... I think they've been doing it undercover for years and have only been partially successful due to transfer rules and an NCAA that was willing to defend amateurism. Now that the permission structure around transferring is in place and there is no reason not to give a kid a check...Katy bar the door.

Ultimately, high profile college athletes have been a very valuable marketing commodity for some time that, due to restriction, have not been tapped. I don't pretend to know the in's and out's of that world but the market has valued individuals with high social media follower counts for some time. That is the edge of this that is probably the most functional...the rest of it...and it's huge, is just money to players for wins with no ROI.
 
307bball said:
These brakes you describe...I assume that they are things like:

Salary caps
Collective bargaining
Revenue Sharing
Free agency rules

Some legal eagles on here who know way more than me have been very pessimistic on the chances that universities would get into the tangle of classifying athletes as employees, thus opening up the possibility of applying these "brakes. This is really weird territory.... you generally have a group of schools that have an alumni donor base who have made the decision to buy in to this new world....and it happened very quickly with very little push back from these donors. The push back has been from some old-school coaches and some nostalgic media types. I think it's fair to ask "why is there so much willingness, all of a sudden, to funnel so much money to these athletes?" I actually think the programs in question have always had donors willing to "buy" talent ... I think they've been doing it undercover for years and have only been partially successful due to transfer rules and an NCAA that was willing to defend amateurism. Now that the permission structure around transferring is in place and there is no reason not to give a kid a check...Katy bar the door.

Ultimately, high profile college athletes have been a very valuable marketing commodity for some time that, due to restriction, have not been tapped. I don't pretend to know the in's and out's of that world but the market has valued individuals with high social media follower counts for some time. That is the edge of this that is probably the most functional...the rest of it...and it's huge, is just money to players for wins with no ROI.
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The schools are paying players directly soon. Something has to change
 
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