Milan Momcilovic tweets "entering NBA draft and portal"
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I ask myself "in the current landscape, will Iowa State ever have another Georges Niang?" The answer is no. NIL, the portal, conference realignment, "media partners," just greed overall, has ruined most of the love I had for college sports.
Humans in general are greedy and college athletics and pro obviously have always been centered around making money and greed follows that.
I get what you're saying, but they did have Lipsey.
All fair statements.
Note - I lived in the residence halls my freshman year and there happened to be a half dozen football players on our floor. They were from around the country. I learned early on that our athletes do not have the same feelings as the people that have been emotional fans. Can it develop with some of the athletes? Yes, it can, but I did learn that emotional feelings about winning and losing are generally stronger with the fan than the athlete.
Some athletes develop the same emotional commitment. I believe that Tyrese and George are recent examples. However, for the vast majority, it is a stepping stone to their next walk in life.
This exactly. I get why people feel the way they do right now but it's getting real melodramatic.
So, the next time we have an all state player from Ames, Iowa who's parents both work for the University?
Some of the most beloved football and basketbsll players in ISU history including the last 15 years were transfers and one or two year guys but let's meltdown about it being normal.
False dichotomy
If he’s good enough to play 10 years in the NBA, the are similar odds he’ll do that regardless of whether he first makes $5-$6 million next year in college
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Odd single issue voter mentality. Regardless, they had very few of him in the before now too. That era has been dead for 30 years
I wouldn’t trade the last decade of FB and MBB for any previous. A big part of that is increased parity from player mobility.
I’m not sure it is. There a finite number of years for a basketball career - it’s not like he could stay in college longer and retire at 65 instead of 62. There’s also the factor that, due to age, he becomes less desirable for an NBA team every year that he waits.
The fiscally conservative choice is almost certainly to spend 2 more years in college the never have to work again, but it seems like he has a smart team and they are weighing options carefully.
I get what you're saying, but very few is more than none.
To your other point, it's not the last 10 years I'm apprehensive about. It's the next 10.
There won’t be none. We just had Lipsey.
By definition, Georges is special because he’s an outlier in any era
The comment was about now/recent era.
Things are arguably as good as ever. Historical elites have lost exclusivity, more parity. More access. Only one offseason from legitimate improvement (remember when you knew next year would likely suck before the current year was even finished?). Spring is far more interesting than ever due to free agency
It can be improved. CBA with real cap and multiple year contracts would help.
Who knows what comes in the future. The revenue gap will grow, but we’ve never been competitive in that. As long as football has access to CFP and playing ex P5 schools, it’ll be fine. Basketball has more room for deterioration, but we will be able to offer enough that PT and usage will lure talent.
He will probably be a below average defender, but to say he'll be a "big time defensive liability" is incorrect. He's worse than the great defenders that Iowa State had (Toure, Heise, etc) but he's better than the average college player, thanks to TJ's coaching.
Half the guys in the NBA right now are 'O'le defenders, they couldn't defend their way out of a wet paper bag. Milan will do just fine in that regard. My only NBA concern for him is ball-handling, if you're a 6'8" wing in the NBA you are going to need to be able to dribble and pass well, and I'm not convinced Milan currently has those skills at a pro ball level.
Ok I might be exaggerating, yeah of course every country is greedy but look at Europe, when they tried to create a mega league their fans took a stand, even the fans of teams who would stand to benefit from it.
In the US there just isn't enough vocal fans to stop what's happening, everyone says they hate what's happening but evidently not enough. And suits know that people will keep watching, I disagree with them but that's what they think.
Maybe social media is just pushing the vocal minority of SEC and Big ten fans dancing on the graves of the rest of us "poors" but it's discouraging.
milan’s greatest strength is shooting and nba teams will not be able to help off him so it basically opens up the floor for driving lanes in the nba. if they help out he just needs a mili second to get off his great shot. he will be ok
