Penn’s entire team from this weekend is back next year. Harvard just loses Pigge and has a big time recruit from Columbus coming in. League will be electric again next year.
yale will have the best big man class it has ever had imo. i have seen all of them on the circuit.
it will also lose a lot with the 2 senior starters and if aletan moves on as anticipated.
but not more than last year, arguably if celiscar and fox stick around. hard to lose more than two kids on an nba roster right now.
it gets lost what mullin did in that game and in this tournament. Brathwaite is next.
i predicted imminent doom for the league 4 yrs ago on the old board. i was wrong so far though yale gets younger and everyone else the same age or older. that aint great.
Except for Thrower, no?
Forgot Penn does lose Thrower but will get Altman back from injury
TJ Power is going to get some serious NIL/transfer interest. After the season he had, a 44pt game and an upcoming NCAA appearance, lots of high majors and top mids will be calling him and making offers.
I wish all Ivies could retain their talent, but it’s just the reality of the NIL/transfer era.
He’s not going to leave. He FINALLY found a home after not getting much time at Duke and an especially miserable experience at Virginia.
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Go Quakers. I expect most Ivy fans who post on this board will root for Penn to win in March Madness. Two thoughts on your roster: unknowable but would Penn have been better off with Roberts playing too? Would his opportunities come at the expense of Power? Second thought: I know Power was nine for nine in free throws but he’s also three for three, as in three schools in three years. Are you so sure he won’t go four for four? He knows where to find the portal and presumably his agent will be fielding offers. Personally, I’ll root for no transfers from Ivy programs this year but hard for the young men to walk away from a lot of money.
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The main thing for him, in recent media appearances, is that he’s now happy for the first time in college (see, another team besides Princeton can have someone who’s happy). He appreciates this, aside from the basketball.
McCaffery had recruited Power when he was coming out of high school, and again when he was leaving Duke. From what I’ve heard, he has a solid relationship with Power and his family, so I suspect that Power isn’t going to leave. He doesn’t seem to be a basketball nomad.
And his Virginia situation was not his fault. Coach who recruited him resigned before the season and the interim coach did not play him. I think he has no intention of leaving. But I also have no idea how much money is out there too.
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The kid is a great player but three teams in three years is the very definition of a basketball nomad.
Good luck in the tournament. I’ll be rooting for the Quakers.
I think it’s reasonable not to foul there, I think the bigger issue was how they defended the final play. It was too easy a pass to Power and too easy for him to get a look - if they wanted to foul him no one was really close enough to foul him safely without worrying that he would try to shoot. Plus there was a kind of out of control challenge on the shot that could have resulted in a foul. If you decide to not guard the inbounds pass, how do you not have the extra player try to deny Power?
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Who knows. I think some of these Princeton folks got a rude shock when Lee showed it could happen to them, too. They’re probably still in recovery.
The $s are just massive
Which is why I have warned yale fans endlessly about it
I see it through my former players in my aau program and my children and my nephews.
Massive! And going up
I spoke to 2 agents and 3 acc assts last week via text or phone. Scrambling
For further context-fsu will have 7x the nil they had last year (which was rather small). UGA auburn UT and UF are huge players
Other accs didn’t volunteer numbers but wanted insights on players and families
The lack of a firm settlement means they are all going beyond revenue share and nil is just pay for play still. this has been a surprise to some and explains why FSU, for one, didnt push last year in NIL mkt. have funding now.
So big inflation coming
watch for Trump’s executive order if and when it comes and what happens in the courts.
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It wasn’t a surprise when Lee left. He had NBA workouts and two-way offers after his sophomore year (!!). It was a gift that he even came back for his junior year. You always hope he stays but power conference transfer or NBA was always more likely.
I hate to be a wet blanket, but Power saying things like, “I’m really happy here” doesn’t mean much. They all say that. I’m sure he’s grateful but he’s a former 5-star recruit who’s already played for 3 teams. If he gets a seven-figure NIL deal from a high major/top mid like Gonzaga, he’s probably gone. $$$ + greater exposure to NBA scouts is what all these kids dream about.
Any number of folks posting from Princeton were of the opinion that Princeton was different, that Princeton players were going to stick it out for four years. Losing Lee and Pierce was a very belated wakeup call for Princeton fans and frankly its basketball coach, who is now in the process of trying to play catch up with the rest of the league.
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the flip side is poulakidas and mbeng getting a shot already.
powers has a good year next year at his measurables and it doesnt matter so much imo what league he is in.
that will be the internal sell and it is likely a good one. But, money does talk esp when it is big $s.
i have spent my whole first career in hedge funds and i cant believe the money being thrown around.
Lee also got a crazy amt through the shoe deal which i have confirmed with UF liasons. hard to say no to that if you understand Net present value math.
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Well, then those folks were naive. I will say that Pierce was “surprising” because of the way he went about it, exploiting ridiculous NCAA rules.
Ironically, the only silver lining of this past season is that no major transfers are expected. No Tiger is getting the type of NIL offer Power will get.
I’m sure his agent wants to promote the “6 million” figure that was floating around, but it was always “up to 6M” in NIL between his shoe deal, other brand deals and pay-to-play booster collective $. He probably had to hit a bunch of milestones to do that and I doubt he did. That said, I bet he still made 3-4M.
the figure is north of that at its base and a tighter range.
i have not seen the contract but it was more about playing time and a layup to hit the thresholds really. i trust my sources at UF. they are as good as any i speak with.
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