NBA proposes changing age limit to 18
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approxinfinity said:
http://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/26049542/nba-proposes-changing-draft-age-19-18-players-union
Eyin’ Zion
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Demarcus Cousins: “Knowing what I know now… College basketball is bullshit.” http://www.espn.com/video/clip?id=26048427
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Oddly enough, if it weren’t for college basketball, I wouldn’t even know (or care less) who Demarcus Cousins is
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Hopefully it changes to 18.
It will be proven clear again, the value of CBB, as players continue to flock to play the game.
But everyone should be able to make a living if they are skilled enough.
Of course, we’ll continue to hear the whining from those that choose to play CBB.
Heard today on the radio the opinion that players should be able to control their likeness. Guess what? They can. But not if they choose to sign on the dotted line and play CBB. It is the act of playing CBB that gives their likeness value. A little known fact …
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HighEliteMajor said:
Hopefully it changes to 18.
It will be proven clear again, the value of CBB, as players continue to flock to play the game.
But everyone should be able to make a living if they are skilled enough.
Of course, we’ll continue to hear the whining from those that choose to play CBB.
Heard today on the radio the opinion that players should be able to control their likeness. Guess what? They can. But not if they choose to sign on the dotted line and play CBB. It is the act of playing CBB that gives their likeness value. A little known fact …
I mean, it’s clear the players are worth something if men are willing to commit felonies to pay them under the table…
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And coaches are willing to lose a multi million dollar job to land recruits… That’s value
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Frank Mason played 4 years and won national player of the year. Someone PROVE to me he brought ANY monetary value to Kansas. If he never played at Kansas the attendance at games does not change and any TV money received does not change. College sports have fans of the front of the jersey not the back. Zion has received free promotion from ESPN and other college basketball outlets that gives him enormous bargaining power with potential endorsers. To act as if all these guys get is a free education is ludicrous.
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@BigBad Well any money that was received from NCAA Tournament wins would be money that he brought to the University of Kansas through his talents… 8 tournament wins is worth quite a bit of money…
Perhaps KU would continue to sell out during a down year, but other schools see drastic increases in Attendance and donations when they are good. Alabama sold 20,000 (10% more) tickets last year just from Collin Sexton hype. Missouri sold 170k more tickets last year after landing Porter Jr… UConn has lost nearly 90k in yearly attendance since 2015 because they’ve sucked. UConn just had a record donations year though after firing Ollie and hiring a new coach… Strange how that coincided. What a coincidence. Memphis was down over 100K in yearly attendance last year. Donations have SOARED since hiring of Penny and them landing Wiseman… Another strange phenomenon. Wiggins year, they sold out season tickets AND had record donations here at KU… ANOTHER STRANGE COINCIDENCE!
I wholeheartedly agree that the players get more than just an education. The value of their likeness certainly increases from going to college. But don’t pretend that the college doesn’t benefit from good players coming. Because that is just plain false. The proof is right there in the numbers. A good team is worth several millions of dollars more than a bad team. That is player added value.
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@BigBad Seems like jersey sales of star players alone involve royalties paid to the schools. Those “0” and “4” jerseys get sold because of excitement engendered by Frank and Devonte.
What would you consider proof?
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All that above doesn’t include the coinciding increases in enrollment that stems from FF runs and NCs. I don’t have enough time today to pull that correlation. But, it is basically a proven theory that teams coming off of good years in sports see major upticks in applications and enrollment. And Vice-versa. Every single additional student is worth at least $30K. Every out of state student is worth $100k+. What is their lifetime value of the extra donations?
I mean, the value of a good team REALLY starts to add up when you dive into the details.
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BigBad said:
Frank Mason played 4 years and won national player of the year. Someone PROVE to me he brought ANY monetary value to Kansas. If he never played at Kansas the attendance at games does not change and any TV money received does not change. College sports have fans of the front of the jersey not the back. Zion has received free promotion from ESPN and other college basketball outlets that gives him enormous bargaining power with potential endorsers. To act as if all these guys get is a free education is ludicrous.
I like your thoughts, but no college basketball team would be a national brand if they weren’t highly successful.
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College basketball (outside of the top handful of programs) generates almost all of its money from the NCAA tournament. The NCAA tournament, in turn, generates about 90% of the overall NCAA budget on an annual basis. So the question is this - do the networks (ESPN, CBS, TNT, etc.) pay top dollar to televise the NCAA tournament.
The question moving forward is two parts:
- How many top players go the NBA/G League/D League route
- How do the networks/advertisers respond
We already know what college basketball looks like if you subtract the TV money. Go to any mid major and you will see it. Drive down to Wichita State, or up to Creighton, or over to any number of other mid major programs. Even the ones that do sell lots of tickets do not have the same financial strength as those that appear on TV regularly. And these are programs that have consistently had success.
If the TV/advertising money dries up, college basketball will have to change because the current model is unsustainable without that money.
