re: I'll Admit it - I Have No Idea How Basketball Recruiting Works Anymore

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If the NCAA doesn't care... why should we? Just put a winner on the court.

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This is where I am as well. If we're going to compete, let's compete.

the way I understand it, in the most basic laymen terms, is if you have not signed an NBA contract, you are free game to be recruited. For domestic players, you still have to be within 5 years of your HS graduation window.

Euros see NCAA as an option now, because they have the opportunity to make more money and gain NBA exposure. These players have agents, so there is some formal shopping going on all around.

Apparently, LSU has access to their own rev-share (revenue from tv contracts,etc shared amongst all SEC teams). The amount available for football is $20.5M annually in June. (IIRC, the number for basketball is $10M or $15M.) I wanna say that rev share has to be spent before being allowed to use NIL.

For supplemental NIL, LSU uses a sports agency that has aggregated a gazillion companies that are willing to pay for an athlete's endorsement. The packages can be diversified. For example, if LSU wants to offer a prospect $1M NIL package, he might get the bulk of it from say, Raising Cane's and some car dealership, but the rest might be comprised of 10 smaller businesses that the athlete also has an minor obligation to represent in some way. All NIL deals have to be approved by some regulatory clearing house

If I'm not mistaken, the new rev share rules effectively outlawed the use of collectives (where fan or alumni or or business donations could be be put in a money pool to pay out to prospects they want.) I believe colletives & TAF funds now have to be used on ancillary projects, like say, stadium upgrades, arena renovations, etc.

LSU can use up all of their annual $20.5M rev share in one class, and if they want more prospects the same year, they can basically give an I.O.U. to a signee willing to wait a few months until June when LSU gets access to another $20.5M. I think LSU dipped into this upcoming rev share funds to sign a lot of their $40M+ portal class.

That's my understanding. ButI could be wrong in parts.

This is what all of the non revenue college sports have been doing. Tennis, men's college soccer etc. Nobody was paying attention to it

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We are about to have a college roster full of grown Euro pros

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I get the strategy but it’s a new one but makes a ton of sense. Waiting for baseball to start adopting this model as well in certain ways.

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We are about to have a college roster full of grown Euro pros

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I get the strategy but it’s a new one but makes a ton of sense. Waiting for baseball to start adopting this model as well in certain ways.

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I have to think we're going to tap into what Bethune Cookman is doing. They're SWAC, and per Google, they have 11 players from other countries (Caribbean and Central America). When they beat LSU in a midweek game, seemed like everyone's last name was Hispanic. They also beat Florida in a midweek game too.

LSU has to have way more resources than they do; I think they just happened to get in on it early.
The standard of living in a lot of those countries is way low, and "a little" money can go a long way there. And those countries love baseball and produce some great players.

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I have to think we're going to tap into what Bethune Cookman is doing. They're SWAC, and per Google, they have 11 players from other countries (Caribbean and Central America). When they beat LSU in a midweek game, seemed like everyone's last name was Hispanic. They also beat Florida in a midweek game too.

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We not comparing the competition in the SWAC to the SEC…

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You did note they're 2-0 vs the SEC, right? They beat LSU in a midweek, and then beat Fla in the following midweek... when it should be

They're 35-17 overall, lead the SWAC 21-6, and are going to be in someone's regional.

You don't normally see colleges with Central American or Caribbean players, I think they usually head to the minors. Remember their economies, minor league pay is still a good deal for them. But with NIL, this may become an option.

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They're 35-17 overall, lead the SWAC 21-6, and are going to be in someone's regional.

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That’s cute. What they do in the SWAC against the bottom-feeders of D1 has little in common with what we need to do to have MLB talent and face MLB talent every week.