FWIW, Niners MBB contacted Boyd when he entered the portal after the 2024-25 season.
https://x.com/RoccoMiller8/status/1970541583939576316
Until they close the loophole, grab a bunch of G League guys. They donât make that much.
clt says go find rodney white
Just saying it again .. if you can find some G league guys who havenât used all their college eligibility:
The average NBA G League salary for the 2025-2026 season is $45,000. This is a 4.7% increase from the previous seasonâs standard salary of $40,500, with the figure set to grow by 3% in subsequent years. Players with different types of contracts, such as two-way or select contracts, can earn significantly more, with potential earnings up to $560,000 or more.
We are going to pay better than the average.
This is another reason why college athletes should be paid in line with minor-league baseball players and G league basketball players. College athletes arenât good enough to be paid big money.
Itâs not about talent unfortunately
Yeah in the BELK school of business I remember something about the price being determined by the market.
Unfortunately we are not paying top market rate.
It is a very inefficient market because you donât know what youâre paying for and no price transparency.
https://x.com/BenShockley_/status/1980835813534626049
@NinerWupAss called it.
While I understand what Izzo is saying, it bothers me that itâs only when it affects the top programs that itâs a problem. All the rules bending, and money hoarding that these programs did to get us to this point was perfectly okay because it benefitted them over a program like ours.
But now that theyâre having to deal with the consequences of their long term actions, we should feel sorry for them.
Yes it does hurt high school players trying to get college roster spots. I do agree with that. But there is so much more that has gone into this.
Again, if they had listened to simple solutions proposed a decade or more ago, we wouldnât be here right now. Should have pooled all the media money, taken about 40-50% of it, and divided that amongst all the eligible D1 players. Very simple solution. But that didnât let the big programs maintain their leverage on the system that let them maintain their perch.
Yep, the NCAA - both the member schools and the shortsighted leadership - have no one to blame but themselves. Could still fix it themselves but donât want to and expecting a dysfunctional Congress to do so is just part of the problem.
Going to disagree here over the fine point that I made.
It was the power conference schools that made this happen. Their greed. I donât believe for a second that mid and low majors would have objected to the basic solutions that I and many other have proposed for a long long time. The power conference schools maintained their iron grip on their leverage over players and the system, and thatâs why we ended up here.
And as the NCAA has demonstrated time and time again, NCAA = the power conference programs. They call all of the shots.
True they are calling the shots but everyone outside of the autonomous conferences has pretty much gone along with it. Thatâs what I find mind-boggling.