They aren't pros. But sure if you want to pay them like pros then they can sign contracts. Of course, how does that work? If they suck are you stuck with them? Can you do a trade between Purdue and Illinois?
I mean I love Edey, and I think he's plenty loyal to Purdue, but he's also getting a pretty sizeable NIL to play here too. As he should.
Sure they are. They are being paid to play a sport. And that’s fine, but let’s call them what they are.
Yep, this is professionalism at it's finest. College is no longer an amateur sporting event.
Ok, who else? What I was alluding to was finding guys outside of the top 75 who develop into top 50 NCAA players. This allows us to have loyalty due to the faith we placed in them and the reward is winning for everyone... Hell, Edy was a 3 star recruit barely thought of when CMP signed him... The money was probably the driving force that kept him here through this season but I believe even if the NIL was much lower he would have just gone pro instead of transferring out after last season...
We will have to have at least 1 leave, I think. Wouldn’t be surprised if 2 kids don’t come back next season to have room on the roster for this class.
No. Rick just finished his first year at St. John’s. Storr played for Mike Anderson.
Edey literally fits your criteria. You can believe that if you want, but he wasn't ready to go pro last year and if Purdue stuffed him in NIL and someone else offered a ton of money, my opinion is he would have, rightfully, left.
If that’s the case I’m fine, just hate seeing guys go that had situations like him, he played 30 minutes a night, had a ton of freedom. We’ll see what happens, he’ll have all the big boys after him.
Agree but the NCAA has sat idle for too long and lost any leverage to do something. There are programs who will have to reload their entire roster every year for the foreseeable future. That in itself should make them snap into some sort of action.
I certainly have no anger for the kids at all, but the current mess doesn't belong in college. I think 50 random people could put a number on a board and someone could throw a dart and come up with something better. I've been gone for a while and so did someone say something that had anger towards the kids?
That isn't anger towards the kids. If I knew the kids and coaches didn't care about tonight, I wouldn't care either. My whole interest is seeing the game and approving or wishing something was different inside the game that has to do with the kids, staff...and parent. It is all about them in my eyes (and I'm fine being a unicorn ), but the NIL as used is a mess...a really big mess and kids are going to programs for the wrong reasons. It isn't that far removed when schools used athletes particularly in football, that couldn't read, and when the scholly was done...so were they. It is broke and needs fixed
Dexter Manley, Mo Clarrett, and Lawrence Phillips to name a few
lol Definitely not "hyper moralizing him"... I'm just saying he seems to have a really good rapport with all of his former players. They really do like him a lot... He also seems to know what kind of person he wants to recruit outside of just physical talents... I'm also NOT saying we won't lose players to the portal as we already have multiple times... My main point is, adding it altogether, Purdue might not suffer as much from the transfer portal like seemingly every other team in the nation does... But lets see...
