re: Did NIL kill the March Cinderella in the NCAA Tournament?

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Kids who can play are being found via social media and travel ball and no longer falling back on low level offers. TV airing every game allows major teams to scout small teams

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AAU basketball has been around far, far longer than travel baseball.

The OP is right, NIL and portal rules have killed the Cinderella.

Didn’t read the whole thread but I think it’s just as much advanced metrics.


Those Cinderellas are higher seeds.

Maybe I’m wrong but looks at McNeese last year. They were a 12 seed.


I don’t see that being the case 10 years ago.

Two years is not much of a sample size.

It must be awful trying to be a fan of a smaller school these days. Any time you get a good player they’re gone as soon as the season ends to the portal

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Teams rosters barely changed year to year...no one and dones. Now the portal, now NIL...its so far removed from College athletes, so far removed from "your team"... who are these guys sporting my teams colors? The turnstile, the $ , the Dance is over.

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The good ole days, back when muh college ball was so much better because 16 and 17 year olds had to decide in HS who they would rep as an indentured servant, making millions for rich people and wealthy institutions without wages, while not being able to work for free anywhere else without severe penalty.

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Why do you figs still do this shite?

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Because other figs still talk about the good ole days, when the field hands were chained to schools and worked for free.

Sweet deflection pussy

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field hands were chained to schools and worked for free

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They could always turn down the free tuition, housing, meals and opportunity to graduate with a 4 year degree free of any college debt or their parents having to pay. No one forces them to sign on for an athletic scholarship.

But hey, at the end of the day, I’m perfectly good with and support college athletes being able to get paid to do car commercials, make charity appearances and make money of giving private lessons in their sport without having to worry about running afoul of the NCAA; however, if you’re going to transfer, you should sit.

You can still make money doing commercials during your sit year, or whatever your sugar daddy booster is willing to do. But you sit…and hopefully use the time you’re not having to worry about traveling for games to pass some classes towards your free college degree.

Why should they have to sit and forgo eligibility? You act like a college developed their talent all alone. In hoops, these kids are highly skilled students of the game playing all over the nation by early HS. Do you not see how sitting on a bench in street clothes might limit one’s NIL value? How many advertisers are paying the shooting guard who can’t play v. The guy who plays 30mpg? Say a valuable player is behind a better player and gets limited time, he should be forced to lose eligibility because he made the wrong decision at 16? It’s dumb.

The ncaa was a criminal cartel model that sought to use free labor to make millions of dollars off the production of young adults. Further, the government mandates this cartel redistributes the wealth generated by few to a bunch of people competing in worthless sports that lose millions. It is the essence of Communism.

I’m sure most of these kids would be more than happy paying their tuition out of their earnings now that they get paid. Most of these degrees aren’t worth shite. College isn’t what it used to be, market is wholly saturated and overpriced.