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-I would guess there would be a way to donate to the family that gets released, if not, if Steve would collect contributions and donate in the name of Billkens.com that might be nice

-this is horrible, I think someone posted that his wife is pregnant that just adds to the grief, rest in peace

-getting 3 out for the Final Four is certainly good for their league

-My disagreement isn’t as much on the ability of student athletes to get paid under the NLI as it is on your description that the NCAA’s amateurism model is a sham and has been hurting athletes for too long. How many student athletes, millions? hundreds of thousands? certainly the number is at least in the thousands, have received athletic scholarships to get a college degree. I don’t have stats for this but some or many came from backgrounds without the means to afford the cost of college and that degree gave them a chance they wouldn’t otherwise have had. -Student-athletes did get a lot in return for scoring touchdowns, making baskets, or whatever their sport involved. For many years they have gotten tutoring not otherwise available to other students. Training tables. Medical care. Clothing and shoes. Tuition, room and board. All of this, and probably more not coming to mind, tax free. -These kids are not lining up to get kicked in the gut or worse. Far from it. -If these kids didn’t know the rules before they went to school, that is on them, their high school, their parents, handlers, coaches or whoever. There has been a substantial benefit to so many student athletes through athletic scholarships affording them the chance at a college degree. To call that a sham and that athletes have been hurt by it rings hollow to me. -For those attending college just to play sports, I think college is not the place for them or that. -But it seems you have a different view of the value of the current situation, which I am not saying is perfect. I don’t think you can change my mind like I probably can’t change yours. That’s okay. -If you want to debate the integrity, honesty, usefulness of the NCAA, you will get very little debate from me. That organization lost its way somewhere along the line, yeah probably by chasing dollars, that whatever changes get forced on it are of its own making.

-kids are not required to do anything now, they choose to play a sport in college, with the roses and the warts

-if they are just athletes, sure, if they are student-athletes I disagree

-people spend their money for all kinds of reasons, if some spending benefits SLU then I'm all for it, and sometimes it is driven by ego, if the president of ABC Corp wants to invite player A to have lunch with them for $5k or $50k, under the new system, go for it -Adman raises some interesting points on this and the decisions that will need to be made -welcome to the somewhat regulated wild wild west

-good for Fordham and the A10 with these two players

-curious what folks are thinking the increase in season ticket cost will be?

-can someone please post The Conklin Screen with Rammer's call in this thread? let's again treat the Huskies just like that

-thank you, Go Ladies!!

-did the team fly to NC?

-I hope whoever was grading Yuri's defense factored in the number of charges he took, I guess he was team leader in that stat, if it is kept

-it reads like they did everything correct and still couldn't play because of positive tests, too bad for them also the A10 to miss a chance to get another unit

-is he bringing Kispert, Suggs and Timme with him?

-Merry Christmas to all except Auburn Tigers

-thank you

-THIS

-Wiz, any chance your well of information has the stat on if a 3pt shooter is fouled and doesn't make the shot, what is the free throw make % versus the overall ft make %? a bar conversation during conference tournament week has me wondering

-is there any money for the schools playing in this Tourney? I couldn't find any info on this

-good work, Ladies, keep it going! -our first game will be Friday, April 30 at 6pm CT -I hope a problem to have, but with how our team rightly addresses academics, let's have a long stay in North Carolina with no grade impacts - I guess a good thing about a team that is so young is some wouldn't be in their hard core major classes

-expected seed? granted we will know at noon tomorrow

-4 of these are frosh, that is great

-he took a verbal swipe at Coach K so he's at least okay in my book