Northeast Stinger
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Yeah, the way the system is set up you’re almost stupid not to test the portal any chance you get. Making smart decisions about college and your future has become greatly simplified 
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Except, there will always be some players not good enough to command more than a token amount in NIL or revenue sharing with no expectation or hope of any kind of professional career, who could lose their scholarships by entering the portal and not finding a new home.
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the fate of next season hinges on one man's decision:
Root4GT
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Hard to imagine he won’t test the NBA and enter the Portal.
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Gentlemen, gentlemen. It's obvious that every year is going to be a new team in the current situation. The coach who can assemble a wining team , and coach them to their capability will suceed. That requires evaluation of available transfers (and FR), alloting the $, recruiting them with whatever turns them on. KY had 12 transfers in and made the sweet 16. This is just the system we are competing in. Until there are some meaningful cahnges, we adapt or fail. We may lose all our players. Who knows.
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What payroll does one need to have a Sweet 16 caliber program? I would subscribe that you only need 8-9 players that get playing time and the rest can be practice players. Can you build a Sweet 16 roster with $5-6 million in NIL?
"Be curious, not judgmental" Walt Whitman
"Be curious, not judgmental" Walt Whitman
Baye here or gone is probably the difference between winning 10 games next year or 15 games. It won’t make much of a realistic difference regarding our season’s goals (NCAAT at-large bid).
Louisville has $8m aside for portal season alone iirc. They just got Adrian Wooley from Kennesaw State who I expect to be a double digit scorer for them.
Northeast Stinger
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I agree with Walt Whitman.What payroll does one need to have a Sweet 16 caliber program? I would subscribe that you only need 8-9 players that get playing time and the rest can be practice players. Can you build a Sweet 16 roster with $5-6 million in NIL?
"Be curious, not judgmental" Walt Whitman
My curiosity takes that a few steps farther. Does a team like Kentucky, with its name recognition, branding, and sending talented players further up the food chain need X amount of money? And do teams without that pedigree have to do more than simply match Kentucky’s NIL? Is the equation we are looking at X + ? And how much is the amount above X that is needed if you are a program currently not ranked in the top 70 teams in the country?
I said this many posts back on a thread. I would hate to be a college coach today. I would perhaps hate it even more at a school that doesn’t consistently make the NCAA tournament.
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Whatever it takes this year, it will take more next year and even more the next year and so on. The current price escalation is out of control.What payroll does one need to have a Sweet 16 caliber program? I would subscribe that you only need 8-9 players that get playing time and the rest can be practice players. Can you build a Sweet 16 roster with $5-6 million in NIL?
"Be curious, not judgmental" Walt Whitman