per his agent @DanielPoneman
Hold on a sec, did I miss where the players can now sign with agents and still play college ball?
I mean, it fits with all the other mercenary ridiculousness, but I didnāt realize that was part of it. Before, IIRC, you could declare for the NBA draft but you could return to school if you withdrew by a certain date AND DIDNāT HIRE AN AGENT.
Guess thatās another line we have crossed.
guess so, I didnāt realize that either
Itās literally just the 5-year pros now. Professional basketball with an arbitrary 5-year eligibility limit.
At some point someone is going push against that eligibility requirement.
Iāve deleted typed responses about this twice now because I really donāt care that much, but this is pretty funny actually:
āCollegeā basketball has lost the plot so bad, Iād been thinking about a ācollegeā league with no limitation on playing years. It just seems so weird. But now thinking about it, if they removed the limit on years of eligibility, thereād be such a surplus of good players hanging around the ācollegeā league, you couldnāt possibly have all these transfers.
I was laughing thinking about some Chia Pet hair cut old dude with a head band shooting free throws in the NCAA tournament and the commentators mentioning how, āā¦ in his 15th season, heās setting the NCAA record for oldest player ever to reach the Final Four.ā 
The whole system is such a mockery now, itās really not that bad of an idea. Imagine if we could have paid Leemire more than those pro leagues. Players get paid, and schools & fans can end up with āfranchiseā players who earn a triple PhD in the meantime.
āā¦now earning his 7th full Bachelor of Science, heās a polymath, polylinguist, polysport ā a true Bo Jackson on the court and off the court. In his 10th season with the university, he began pinch hitting for the baseball team. He tried out for the Track & Field team last year just to show he still could. In a few years, heās hoping to get his son on the basketball team with him.ā
Yeah I didnāt realize it is going to be Braswellās 7th season. That is nuts.
I know we contacted Styles during his initial foray in the portal but didnāt see anything this time around. Anyway, will be a good bit closer to home in the Triangle than the QC.
FWIW, in spite of apparently losing out on Davis, Michigan landed 4 players this weekend.
Itās really hard to understand what some of these players are looking for. Being on a successful team doesnāt seem to matter. I guess some could be looking for more playing time or more money. Even Duke lost 7 players and Iām sure they have very good NIL and are playing for one of the most successful blue bloods in the country. I really think for a lot of them it comes down to wanting the attention that comes from being recruited. I know some are just looking for what they think is a better situation for themselves but itās getting really hard to believe there are this many players in bad situations.
Yeah I think itās almost all money related and they have agents and middle men out there looking for more bidding against each other and driving the price up.
clt says leaving Duke mbb is absurd if you are playing. that degree can open more doors than $25k more in NIL
For most kids getting that degree is worth more over a lifetime than whatever nil the majority of these kids are getting.