Here is the direct link to the story
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Ways this can go wrong.
A couple of blue bloods say nope not signing it and throw it in the trash and dare the conference to kick them out.
A state legislature exerts control over the signing process and orders it not to be signed or shuts down a program to f with the conferences and networks.
I could go on.
It’s not happening.
State legislatures don’t like to be overruled other than by the feds. They are goi g to go apeshit over this.
Not to mention the entire thing sounds illegal and like they are engaged in price fixing without a collective agreement.
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clt says this event is being hosted by a niner. we should have folks there
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Flagg is NOT taking a pay cut. It’s been estimated that staying in school an additional year would cost him up to $125M in future NBA earnings.
I think they mean year to year. if he had 2 NIL deals worth 28-30 mil he is taking about a 50% pay cut as rookie pay scale for 1st overall pick should be around 16 mil.
The total rookie contract would be worth around 62 mil vs around 120 if he maintain his Duke NIL deals if he stayed for 4 years.
Now the part they don’t go into is that his shoe deal and fanatics likely followed him to the NBA so he should still receiving them. Mean his total comp next years is likely around 50 mil. So there is no decrease in compensation year over year.
It does call into question though IF eligibility goes away is staying it college where you play far fewer games, have a lower chance of injury and can make comparable or better per game money a better deal?
We could also see the elimination of the rookie pay scales so that professional teams are more attractive to professional college talent, especially if they can stay in the college ranks.
Just a reminder that Flagg would just now be graduating from high school if he hadn’t reclassified to enter college a year early. This isn’t a guy who was ever going to spend more than a single season at Duke and he accelerated the process of getting to his ultimate goal - the NBA.
I don’t think anyone is disagreeing with that, but that this is more a thought exercise for the current climate and where things could go.
In the future does Duke or other schools seek a 2/3 year contact to lock a player like him in?
Agreed, short-term vs long-term. Goal is to get to that second contract/supermax as soon as possible. Also, for some reason, players are kind of penalized for staying in school. Viewed as old and not as much upside. I just looked at a mock draft and the top 19 picks were Fr.'s
clt says el tamir missed out. he would be $$$$ in the NIL era
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Just more fuel on my fire that I prefer pro sports to this shit show people call college sports
Murky deals aside, Fraschilla said NIL and the transfer portal have altered not only the coach-player relationship, but also, in some cases, the power structure.
“I had a referee recently text me. He said, ‘I did games this year where I could tell the coach was afraid to yell at the players because he was worried the kid might get mad and transfer,'” said Fraschilla, adding that money and the reshuffling of players every year has impacted team chemistry.
“There are teams that, when you watch games, you think, ‘How the hell are they losing with all that talent?’ And you find out one guy is jealous of another guy because he’s getting more money,” said Fraschilla.
“I had one client and I told him how to save for taxes. Tax season came and it was all gone. It turns out, he had been playing online blackjack,” said one executive.
What’s crazy is now I’m hating college for the same reasons I hated professional for so long.
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Gotta figure that the NBA might go back to just taking kids right out of HS.
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Agree
The problem with that is that these guys get a huge fan base just by playing one year of college sports. These fans follow them throughout their career.
Or raise the rookie pay scale. If you’re the number one pick it probably doesn’t pay to come back but where does it, 4,5,6? It’s like the discussion with QBs, it is starting to make sense for a lot more of them to stay in school, or playing for the team associated with the school once eligibility requirements go away.
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