nothing to know anything about.
bez and samson have representation…poulakidas just signed a mgmt deal but more abt his pro prospects than nil
davidson now has a strong collective. this isnt Auburn or Kentucky. it’s davidson. the same school that offered former IL players like me.
Bob McKillop was a great coach for a lot of players; may have been the better coach, with the better level of competition for you. Who knows?
Once again. There are Ivy players getting paid. They aren’t at Yale. Some Yale kids have small deals. JJ plays by the rules or at a minimum, the informal edicts from the AD and Prez, which in my opinion are misplaced. JJ will always get kids, with Justin and Matt on the scene. Nova would be nuts to not talk to him, but we shall see.
I would have loved to get a Toad’s/Box63/Insert any local bar NIL deal back in the day. Times are changing.
Thanks and your remarks seem indisputable.
Davidson’s NIL platform is much different than a few unknown Ivy League players getting paid unknown amounts of cash. A big part of NIL is simply having it so the market knows you’re a player. Davidson now has a well-known, well-funded NIL platform with a GM and Steph Curry backing. Davidson is a small academic school with good basketball that’s now all in for NIL. It’s one thing for an Ivy League program to say they won’t compete in NIL with an SEC school, but another to not compete with Davidson who recruits similar players.
Davidson is in the A-10, which
is a very different level of play
than the Ivies.
This is a better articulation the point I am trying to convey and why I added this signpost to this particular thread topic.
It ain’t about the X’s and O’s but the jimmy and Joe’s of course…
Furman is launching its own collective effort. no they don’t have Steph curry.
But we are talking southern conference and in davidsons case A10 (formerly southern when Steph played)
If you don’t have this you won’t be in d1, ultimately. That is a prediction
Understand the A10 is a higher ranked league. However, the Ivy League competes well with the A10, as it should. Princeton beat St Joes and Duquesne and was tight with Loyola. The best Ivy teams are on par with the A10. I guarantee that if Yale plays Davidson, they expect to win.
I guess I draw a line between one bid
Leagues, and those who routinely
get multiple bids. The A-10 gets
two or three in down years.
i watched snippets of davidson this year and have some historical context.
i found their relative lack of size and athleticism somewhat surprising. apparently so did Steph!
i hear your point. predictions are dangerous. but there is little reason to not believe if sankey has his way that basketball will more resemble football with A/AA and ncaa $s will be divvied up amongst those who pay to play in the big time.
that’s my view anyway.
Interesting quotes from the Iona AD today after firing Anderson. Mentioned NIL and that Iona "…requires an overhaul of our entire business model and program structure.” Obviously this means more NIL. This is the Iona Gaels of the MAAC, ladies & gentlemen. Also interesting that Anderson was a D3/D2 guy prior to FDU and I think the gap between those coaches and D1 coaches widens in the NIL era.
It’s not the coach—it’s the program itself, which lost almost its entire starting lineup, including Walter Clayton, now starting guard for top 5 Florida, once Pitino moved on. Iona cannot get another Pitino, who was looking to rebuild his career after scandal, so came to Iona with financial resources of his own plus a brand. No one Iona can get to coach will replace what Pitino had. The only alternative is to find a donor who is willing to spend but wants to name his own coach. In other words, the school is selling its autonomy, which of course, is par for the course for Ivy schools as well who name their med schools, business schools and law schools after the highest bidders.
“In so many ways, the Princetons knocking off the UCLAs, Harvards ousting New Mexicos and Cornells toppling Temples are the quintessential March Madness Cinderella stories. They are tales of teams from schools with exacting academic standards that are not known for hoops and don’t offer sports scholarships knocking off big-time basketball factories, some of which are looking more and more like professional training grounds every day.”
“Looking like” ?
Coach and AD saying two different things. Not a good look.
That’s several articles in MSM about Ivy Hoops that I’ve seen recently that didn’t mention the Sweet Sixteen Princeton and Cornell teams. I guess those teams were too successful so they puncture the image.
Admin: I think Vicky Chun was talking about the changing financial situation affecting college sports while James Jones was talking about the relative quality of his team. They didn’t sound contradictory to me. Btw, I was curious about why Vicky Chun seemed to be absent from the Sunday Ivy Madness final. That’s unlike her.
I think the topics are more related than not, at a minimum.
Reads like Vicky is looking around.
Better than Coach Jones, I suppose.