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This is a bit of a rabbit hole, but what the hay... We base every decision we make on information. There are two kinds of information: 1. Our direct sensory perception / our direct experience. This is what we know. 2. information relayed from other sources. This is what we believe...

I certainly agree that what is going on with the revenue sports in college athletics is a reflection of a broader social context. Trickle down Globalism.

The rise of the AAU culture certainly engendered the values of self-promotion. I think it represents a big step towards where we are now. I think the FBI investigation into the AAU-shoe company-college axis shook-up that culture and I wonder if the same money that ran through there is still there.

Player mobility must reflect a mindset that places no value on rootedness/affiliation/kinship. Fans of the previous generations can't relate to this mindset, and they lament. Is there a generation coming up behind us that finds this all exciting, or do all fans think this sucks? Just when...

I don't think the players have changed that much. They have bulked-up. Otherwise I don't see a huge difference on the court. The game has changed some. The game has spread out with a much greater emphasis on perimeter jump shooting. The officiating is much more permissive of "creative" ball...

The games are still interesting to watch. I still enjoy the contests, especially the conference games. Following the "off season" is different. The "watching the sausage get made" analogy becomes more applicable as time goes by. I think it is actually worse in football right now. I wonder...

Probably neither, but you never know. Who currently do you think is the more draftable prospect?

On the other side of the coin, Nait George made ACC all academic with a 4.0 in the Fall Quarter.

aT 6'9" ~215, the issue with Baye is what position can he defend in the NBA? He looks to me to have a lot of offensive up-side. I don't know about his defense. Is he a tweener? I think a similar story was written for Moses Wright. He could score in the NBA, the issue is, I guess, that he...

Mock drafts don't represent the opinions of teams. Each NBA franchise has their own independent scouting personnel and a GM that is going to make final decisions. Any player has to impress only one team to make hay. Then guys might take a shot at being a free agent and land on a developmental...

So much of draft position is determined by the upcoming work-outs. think what Josh Okogie did for himself with team workouts. That fact alone makes prediction impossible because teams won't even rank a guy until they put them through work-outs.

At the core of it is a relationship that exists between the concepts of "rootedness" as a psychological state and "team" as a functional body. In my mind, winning in basketball is not so much a mere summation of production of individual players. It really is a team game. If a player is...

There is the old football scouting adage that "hurt players get hurt." The circular reasoning means that if injured players can't help you and you want to avoid them, then injuries may be a red flag. . I think we can apply parallel reasoning to the transfers: "Players in the portal...

It seems to me with the recent development of extreme roster volatility that talent retention may emerge as the single greatest key to high level winning in the game currently. The post season disappointments of both Duke and Kentucky, programs that have cornered the market on 5* high school...

I think the key point is that Calipari truly was the PERFECT coach for Kentucky. Any move they made was going to be a move down. That simple fact made any and all other candidates highly skeptical of the job. Calipari may not have been as nimble as he could be to catch on to the fact that...

That's the kind of hire I was expecting. If he says yes. 9 year head coach, 5 years at BYU. 110-52 (.679), 49-29 in conference (.628)(10-8 in his one year in the Big 12). Never won a conference championship, went to the NCAAT twice in 9 seasons, losing both games in the first round. He's...

Incoming players last year: HS recruits: Nodongo, Sacko, George and Souare Transfers: Dowuona, Claude, Reeves, Abram and Gapare. So far: 4 or 4 Freshmen are still on the roster. 4 of 5 Transfers are in the portal.

That could be the rub, if her production in the pros doesn't match her celebrity. Those players may resent her celebrity power and may try to bring her down, but it would be better for those players if Caitlin Clark were to light it up and raise interest in the League that would pay off for all...

It doesn't really matter, but my view of Gapare's game is that he liked to do two things: Get out in transition and go end to end and, second, to spot up for three, which he hit an an alarmingly poor percentage. I think Gapare played like he preferred to be a guard. He did not like playing...

I don't follow woman's hoops and I hardly watch any commercial TV, and record the sports events I want to watch so I can fast forward. But I did watch some of the NCAAT games and I kept seeing this young woman in an Iowa basketball uniform ALL over the commercials. I wondered who she was...