Seems like Niko swooped in and poached Nolan Groves from us. Tough loss.
What the hell. Sad news, he’s probably a gopher yeah.
This is a bigger shock to me than Wolf on many levels. Yale is too good and James is elite. The admin there needs to move into 2025.
Sorry can you elaborate on what you mean by this? What could/should’ve the admin/AD done to prevent this
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Not shocked
As I noted mn was still calling according to my sources
Yale is not moving into 2025 anytime soon
But Yale lacrosse is. Just saying.
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Ivy League basketball alums and boosters don’t want to pay kids. They have the $ and nothing can stop it but there’s no interest in doing it. Zero interest. People may begrudgingly scrape together a few hundred grand each year but nobody really wants to do it. And for the record, LaCrosse sucks.
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I can confirm there is 0 interest for paying Yale basketball players at this juncture.
Yale Lax has more donors and much deeper pockets at least vis a vis Yale hoops.
I don’t see this changing.
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LAX is a sport for wealthy people to begin with. The Yale LAX donors had deep pockets 100 years ago. They want the same attention that basketball players and football players get and are happy to pay for it. I live in a LAX hotbed where every 6th grader is an All-American and somehow committed to Duke, Harvard or Michigan.
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Yale lax has joe tsai.
He watches practice from his computer in Hong Kong.
He is also very wealthy.
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So far groves has been offered by minn, Wisconsin and Texas tech.
He also signed with a management co
Commits to TTU. We recognized him early and kept him for a long time - can’t compete with a team that’s likely competing for a national championship next year.
I do expect we finally see some assistant turnover this off-season. Kingsley/Simon have done a terrific job and hope they get recognized for it.
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Simon was a runner up to Klatsky at NYU a few years ago. Any chance he’s in the mix again?
He interviewed. Some other high academic D3s are also interested
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Groves is averaging 1 point, 1.3 rebounds, 6.7 minutes per game this year for TTU after de-committing from Yale. Are most NIL contracts structured as multi-year deals (to retain players through a growth/development year) or single-year deals? Must be a hard transition from dominant high school player (Minnesota Gatorade POY) to bench guy, though the $ undoubtedly cushions the emotions…
I think the vast majority of D1 athletes were dominant high school players in one way or another. The key now is will players prioritize $$$ over development as a D1 athletes? I hope there is some balance, because if not, those former high school stars will soon lose those $$$ because they can’t deliver on the court.