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Post by iowa80 on May 11, 2023 13:52:46 GMT -5
Even assuming there’s more to this story, this seems dumb (and cheap) on St. John’s part. If they wanted to move on, eat the money and then move on.
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Post by iowa80 on May 10, 2023 19:45:43 GMT -5
Big-time college coaches can say whatever they want. A lawyer will draft an apology and it’s all good. I guess if you’re a bad coach you now have given your employer the option to terminate you for cause and possibly break your contract. I wonder what Huggins thought of the Ewing teams. I think we know what the fanbase thought of the Ewing Jr. team. Unfortunately.
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Post by iowa80 on May 10, 2023 19:33:13 GMT -5
This ended up happening... Does Creighton have a NIL problem?
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Post by iowa80 on May 9, 2023 20:22:17 GMT -5
I support an assessment, and possible change, in SCOTUS ethics rules. Until I see an actually link between a Thomas decision and a personal Crow interest, I'll reserve further judgement. All federal judges except for SCOTUS justices must avoid even the APOEARANCE of impropriety or a conflict of interest. No actual conflict need exist. Thus, Thomas's financial relationship with Crow violates the code of conduct that all other federal judges must follow, regardless of any link to a decision by Thomas. OK. And as to the current rules for SCOTUS judges? And, even if relevant, the "appearance of impropriety" certainly would require a statement as to the "impropriety" and the "appearance." Let's say that Crow opposes Roe v. Wade. Does this "relationship" somehow invalidate Thomas vote in Dobbs?
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Post by iowa80 on May 9, 2023 20:12:07 GMT -5
Understandable. I don't think like you. Yeah. That’s the reason. Thanks. I'll remember to keep my place in the future and speculate on Cooley's next recruiting class.
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Post by iowa80 on May 9, 2023 20:07:44 GMT -5
I may have made this point before, but I suspect one of the reasons these discussions is so one-sided is that "we" don't want politics to interfere with Hoya friendships--in particular Hoya basketball friendships. I share that opinion. Your response, including the apparently de rigueur and predictable reference to Fox, is juvenile. But we can still be friends You drop in, say something disparaging to the posters, and then “peace out” and you want to accuse others of being juvenile. Beautiful sanctimony and hypocrisy. I think I’m good not being friends. Understandable. After all, I don't think like you.
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Post by iowa80 on May 9, 2023 20:05:57 GMT -5
I may have made this point before, but I suspect one of the reasons these discussions is so one-sided is that "we" don't want politics to interfere with Hoya friendships--in particular Hoya basketball friendships. I share that opinion. Your response, including the apparently de rigueur and predictable reference to Fox, is juvenile. But we can still be friends Iowa, I am curious, what would you like to see happen here? You can't possibly support just sweeping all of this under the rug. I support an assessment, and possible change, in SCOTUS ethics rules. Until I see an actually link between a Thomas decision and a personal Crow interest, I'll reserve further judgement.
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Post by iowa80 on May 9, 2023 19:54:59 GMT -5
Hope you all are loving this one-sided "trial" by innuendo. After all, can't have someone on the court who bucks the desired narrative. Peace out. Ugh. You again with this nonsense. The guy who posted right above you is a diehard Republican, and even HE thinks this whole thing reeks of utter corruption. Keep watching Fox News. They’ll tell you what you want to hear. I may have made this point before, but I suspect one of the reasons these discussions is so one-sided is that "we" don't want politics to interfere with Hoya friendships--in particular Hoya basketball friendships. I share that opinion. Your response, including the apparently de rigueur and predictable reference to Fox, is juvenile. But we can still be friends
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Post by iowa80 on May 9, 2023 19:32:36 GMT -5
Hope you all are loving this one-sided "trial" by innuendo. After all, can't have someone on SCOTUS who bucks the desired narrative. Peace out.
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Post by iowa80 on May 8, 2023 20:22:10 GMT -5
Jordan Riley to Temple today and Marvel Allen (we hardly knew ye) to Dayton. Should’ve gone to Seton Hall. But Shaheen wasn’t going to give Riley PT till he fixed his shot. In the long run I think he would have been better off with Shaheen at Seton Hall even if it meant siting on the bench another year. These young men want to play. Good school, classic program, good league, good choice.
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Post by iowa80 on May 8, 2023 13:19:10 GMT -5
The proof of the pudding is on the floor, not in some third- party “expert’s” assessment of the portal. I’m sure Murray, and, to a lesser extent, Spears played into last year’s rank. How did that work out? Heath and, as of now, Akok are still here. We all see some holes, but let’s see how it plays out where it matters.
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Post by iowa80 on May 6, 2023 12:25:43 GMT -5
From simply looking at stats and a few highlights, my impression is that he is similar in game to Kaiden Rice. Capable of getting super hot from three on occasion, but now much in terms of anything else on the court. FWIW...a three point specialist who you ride when he's hot, and sit when he is not, is needed on this team, so I am NOT complaining. But for those who know....does he bring more than what I have stated? I saw K St. only in the tournament, but he does not appear to be a chucker like Kaiden, who IMO had issues with knowing when not to shoot. I will reserve judgement on D for a larger sample size. Wish he was bringing the K St PG with him.
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Post by iowa80 on May 5, 2023 16:05:59 GMT -5
Aside from a center, do we really need anyone else? Not sure this is an NCAA squad year 1, but there are multiple pieces to build with moving forward. Will be nice to see how a coach of Cooley's caliber can get the most out of this unit. I’d have to consider Brumbaugh and Fielder unknowns at this point. I get that Brumbaugh was a red shirt, but it would not hurt at all to have another experienced, if not necessarily scoring, PG.
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Post by iowa80 on May 5, 2023 12:34:04 GMT -5
Check out the KSU MSU Sweet 16 game where he showed his ideal. If he gets minutes he can be like a Bile type. That was his best game of the year, so good for him. He does not rebound like Bile. A decent add but let’s not go overboard.
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Post by iowa80 on May 4, 2023 16:21:38 GMT -5
We are 6 weeks into restarting a total disaster. It is not even close to MidTerms and you give an Incomplete? The pieces that have been added all appear to be very good additions. There are good choices out there who have at least one year of solid performance at the D1 level and new players entering the Portal every day. We have one very high priority to fill - a starting Center. If a strong 3 pt shooter can also be added I would call that a solid A for his first year recruiting. The recruiting grade is really total BS. The only grade that counts will be posted next March when the Big East Tournament is over. That grade should be based on: 1. Did he put a team on the floor that can execute a good defensive and offensive game plan? 2. Did his coaching demonstrate better performances at both ends of the floor by Heath, Akok, Bristol, and Ryan? 3. Did his overall WL record and Big East record show significant improvement over the last two years? 4. Is the student body significantly more involved with the Men’s Basketball Team? 5. Does he have a set of returning players and incoming recruits in place that have a good chance of being at least .500 in the Big East in the 24/25 season? 6. Has his team and coaching staff positively represented Georgetown University? Based on where we were on March 19, 2023, that is a very tough set of goals. For $5M+/year, that is the easiest set of goals of all time. I’d be happy with those in the first year back from the abyss. The money plays into Cooley’s ceiling, but that’s down the line.
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Post by iowa80 on May 4, 2023 12:51:12 GMT -5
Even assuming it's more "fair and equitable" to have those with the most money buy most of the best players, that doesn't really change the inherent hypocrisy in NIL being sold as one thing and actually being another. NIL wasn't sold as anything Iowa80, it came about because the NCAA got its hat handed to it in the O'Bannon case. After that California decided to make its own rules & other states followed suit. Folks can't pretend as if this was marketed & sold to the public in any manner. As for those with the most money taking advantage of the market that is an interesting take coming from a fellow Gtown fan after this offseason.. I think we’ve reached an impasse. Name, Image, Likeness has clear meaning— not pay for play— and one needs only to read NCAA guidance to see the manner in which it has been “sold.” I understand that you are being sincere here but I can’t go any further.
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Post by iowa80 on May 3, 2023 22:44:01 GMT -5
I love you guys. I have a lot of fun reading these threads, and I mean no disrespect. Seriously. I wish I had the time energy, will, or fingers necessary to do a Biden corruption thread. But no. Peace out.
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Post by iowa80 on May 3, 2023 20:17:37 GMT -5
I obviously don't have a problem with the activity of, for example, signing and selling an autograph. Now, if you choose to believe that players are being offered millions of dollars to sign autographs and appear at bowling alleys and not as a pay for play inducement, you are welcome to believe that, but I think most Georgetown grads are smarter than that. It's not the amount that I have an issue with. If Nike pursued a shoe deal with Zion and offered him millions out of their marketing budget that would be great! He was a bigger star than 90% of NBA players during his year in college and a multi-million-dollar shoe deal would have been a legitimate corporate sponsorship. If Georgetown's boosters, through a "collective" with no actual business model, offer the same number of millions to Hunter Dickinson, with maybe 5% of the name recognition, and he provides a few bowling alley appearances, that's quite different and clear pay for play disguised as NIL. You must fall for a lot of spam calls if you are struggling this much to understand what is real and what is a smokescreen. My opinion is that there isn't any difference between Nike telling Zion they'll give him his own shoe & 2 million dollars IF he chooses to go to a NIKE program and a collective telling some other player they can get millions of dollars for appearances or autographs etc. They're both pay-for-play inducements, and I have zero issues with either method of recruitment but you obviously do. IMHO Nike's offer shouldn't hold more legitimacy because they're a corporation in it for the money as opposed to a collective made up of boosters/fans of a program who are in it for the love of their team, both are the same in my view... NIL is far from perfect & definitely needs some tweaking but it's a much fairer or more equitable system than the old system which I'm happy about... Even assuming it's more "fair and equitable" to have those with the most money buy most of the best players, that doesn't really change the inherent hypocrisy in NIL being sold as one thing and actually being another.
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Post by iowa80 on May 3, 2023 13:53:55 GMT -5
Yes, a center. But we also need a Terrell Allen kinda guy in the portal. That shouldn’t be too heavy a lift.
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Post by iowa80 on May 2, 2023 19:58:31 GMT -5
NCAA had the opportunity when they opened up to NIL to put in place guard rails against explicit "pay for play" arrangements (which is still technically against the rules). I imagine this would have in effect created a tricky regulatory scheme and necessitate a sizeable bureaucracy in order to enforce fairly/evenly. There has also been substantial political pressure around the issue of major college sports generating huge revenues, without the athletes getting a fair share. In the end, I think the NCAA brass decided "screw it", and even though "pay for play" from the schools and boosters is technically against NCAA rules, they'll do nothing and let the chips fall where they may. And not shockingly, they chips are falling into explicit bidding wars for athletes to play for a particular program, with nothing more than the most minimal veneer of having the player perform true endorsement-type services for the booster owned businesses and "collectives" funding this. Free transfers have simply sped the whole thing up. I have compared this before to medical marijuana--there were some people who truly used it for "medicinal" reasons, but most who had medical marijuana cards on the basis of "chronic pain" or "anxiety" or whatever really just wanted to get stoned. The states could have cracked down on this, but there was never any political will to do so, and eventually many of these states just dumped the farce and legalized recreational use. The NCAA is now at that crossroads. Reaffirm amateur athletics but allow student-athletes to profit from "true" endorsement/NIL type activities, or accept that major college athletics are lower tier professional enterprises and treat them as such. The status quo is not stable/sustainable, and won't last for more than a few more cycles of this. The NCAA doesn't want to put up guardrails because they know some player will take them to court over them, then they'll have to defend hogging the billions of dollars generated from HM football & basketball. As seen with the O'Bannon lawsuit it won't go well for the NCAA. This is why they're hoping/begging Congress to intervene and set nationwide NIL rules so they won't have to.. I don't know how much ground "guardrails" covers, but the NCAA has made it clear that P4P is not permissible. If they are going to run scared when schools undermine the NIL concept, as would be typical of such a feckless organization, at least the fans can call out the hypocrisy. Not that it will matter.
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