Murphy already beat me to this on a FB post, but for those 50+, you will remember the original Six Million Dollar Man
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Milan Momcilovic commits to Kentucky
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$200K to play a college basketball game, eh. A new addition to that long list of things I did not see happening during my lifetime.
If healthy, this is true. And, to a certain extent, some teams that stay healthy get lucky. But, for the rest the teams, depth matters more. And if you look at our past frustrations, ultimately, lack of depth is what stopped us once injuries hit. And maybe, lack of depth played a part in the injuries. Don't know.
When your best player and All American gets hurt that really hurts your team as the tournament goes on. It was not due to the lack of depth. If any teams best player gets hurt they are going to have issues.
This situation is the epitome of how college sports are being ruined. Team A beats Team B, handily, in last season's post season. Team A looks better, and could be a good team the upcoming season. However, Team B, for all accounts not being considered to be near a top team, and markedly inferior to Team A for next season. So Team B just buys a player they like from Team A, because they have a larger wad of cash. This premise is destroying the competitive nature of sport. Team A is still projected to be better than Team B, but potentially not as good as they could have been. So, is winning a title only to be privy to those in the money?
That’s not it
In any other era, Milan isn’t returning to college
And we’d be struggling to replace him, Tamin, and Jefferson.
Instead we were able to make the prudent decision to not count on Milan returning, and replace his production
When it became apparent he could make far more returning to college than turning professional, Milan was fortunate enough that UK had become desperate after missing on targets AND Louisville also wanted him. He got two wealthy rivals in a late cycle bidding war
He would have gotten what he's getting if he was the first player in the portal to have committed somewhere. he was the countries best shooter last year
Very unlikely
We see this every year, although this was a particularly good time to hold out due to two rivals wanting his services
If you’re a top free agent, signing early when you’re most replaceable isn’t maximizing your salary
You don’t want to wait until there’s no money, but big budget schools know now to save for the guys returning to college. And the UK types always have money needed to overpay to get the last difference maker on the board
That really puts it into perspective! I never thought about it on a per-game basis before.
An NBA player with a super-max contract makes about $700k per game.
Murphy already beat me to this on a FB post, but for those 50+, you will remember the original Six Million Dollar Man
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70s sci-fi slow motion and the accompanying sounds are super underrated.
Are there very many low budget/not much under the table cash programs that have a natty throughout college sportsball history?
just goes to show how stupid some of these colleges and boosters are when paying that much to players per game
You'd have to go back to at least the 60s to find one. Texas Western might be the best example but we're aware of the extenuating circumstances that made that possible.
He was one of the top players in the portal. Bidunga signed way earlier and is getting paid around the same. Milan would have gotten the same amount he is getting even if he committed somewhere months ago, whether you're able to accept that or not is irrelevant, because it's the truth.
Bidunga is getting less, despite being a big.
He would have gotten more, had he held out and had UK desperately trying to beat out UL
This is unequivocal. Basic market behavior
Please help me understand. Every university, including ISU, is allowed $20.5 million NIL for ALL athletes in ALL sports, but Momcilivic gets $6 million ? He was not even 1st team all conference. ISU plays by the rules. Everyone else cheats their a$$e$ off.
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