Jefferson NOT gone.

[Pizzapitter]

Hearing he was offered just under 3M. We’re at just over 1M and he’s asked us to get to 2M.

Why wouldn't JJ take the better $ offer? I sure would

 

[CycloneVet]

This is one reason why I roll my eyes when we are happy when someone happens to be eligible for 2 years knowing if they blow up they have the potential to be poached. It’s getting old to be honest.

 

[cyatheart]

Only nil vetted through the clearinghouse. Jefferson isn’t getting paid $2m to sell chainsaws in baton rouge.

Hope you are right, but you have to assume the clearinghouse thinks 2m isn't the right number.

 

[Cyclones125]

The average G league player is typically better than somebody like Josh Dix yet making a tiny fraction of the $.

The reason it's upsidedown is the college athletics laundry is so valuable and the laundry is valuable because of the money invested by students in their tuition and often tax payers funding the school. It's really messed up.

The biggest problem is 100% of these pros being one year unrestricted free agents. If programs can't have multi year revenue sharing/NIL deals with teeth, the NCAA needs to do something to restrict transfers. A player would still be free to attend college anywhere they get accepted, just not play sports there if their contract precludes it.

If there must be no transfer rules, at least some of these transfers should be on 2 or 3 year deals. Like pro sports sometimes a deal will be a total bust, but it will give programs some stability.

I may be mistaken but I believe the ISU Athletics Department is a completely separate budget/operation than the school so they're not seeing any of the tuition money. I think Pollard talked about this recently with Arizona State supposedly providing a huge amount of funding to their Athletic Department, while ISU does not.

 

[Cymark86]

The people on this thread are reporting the team in question is LSU. If you are in the know and it's a quick Google, LSU is a poverty program year over year.
Are they a passionate fanbase, no doubt. But they are an alum base that doesn't have the donor $$ to go crazy in portal. Amazingly even with sec allocation they lose money every year.
Not to mention a garbage Academic institution

Their board says they have a $9 million basketball NIL budget.

 

[CloneJD]

There is no guarantee it's going to go the way you think it it is either. Even if the ruling goes that way there are almost certainly going to be appeals. You know this is more complicated than one ruling fixing this. Love the optimism though.

You don’t know how class action settlements work either. It’s a settlement that ends the litigation. Out of court settlements aren’t appealed.

 

[cyatheart]

The people on this thread are reporting the team in question is LSU. If you are in the know and it's a quick Google, LSU is a poverty program year over year.
Are they a passionate fanbase, no doubt. But they are an alum base that doesn't have the donor $$ to go crazy in portal. Amazingly even with sec allocation they lose money every year.
Not to mention a garbage Academic institution

So? They have some big donors for sure. Many of them. And they have more AD rev.

 

[Drew0311]

The people on this thread are reporting the team in question is LSU. If you are in the know and it's a quick Google, LSU is a poverty program year over year.
Are they a passionate fanbase, no doubt. But they are an alum base that doesn't have the donor $$ to go crazy in portal. Amazingly even with sec allocation they lose money every year.
Not to mention a garbage Academic institution

Problem is they are willing to give their rent money to buy players .

 

[farm85]

 

[Cymark86]

Their board says they have a $9 million basketball NIL budget.

Also they got a guy (Dedan??) that’s a friend of Jefferson from the LA area. Seems like there’s definitely a lot of smoke here.

 

[CloneJD]

Like the before times, schools will find a way to get around any cap that is eventually decided on. But I do think it will be better over all.

Schools don’t want to go around the system. Boosters on the other hand . . .

 

[HFCS]

I may be mistaken but I believe the ISU Athletics Department is a completely separate budget/operation than the school so they're not seeing any of the tuition money. I think Pollard talked about this recently with Arizona State supposedly providing a huge amount of funding to their Athletic Department, while ISU does not.

The brand is only valuable because of students/taxpayers. It’s Iowa Energy without it.

 

[farm85]

The people on this thread are reporting the team in question is LSU. If you are in the know and it's a quick Google, LSU is a poverty program year over year.
Are they a passionate fanbase, no doubt. But they are an alum base that doesn't have the donor $$ to go crazy in portal. Amazingly even with sec allocation they lose money every year.
Not to mention a garbage Academic institution

Kim Mulkey says hi...

 

[jsb]

Schools don’t want to go around the system. Boosters on the other hand . . .

Right. I should have said boosters. But my point still stands. It won't be a fair system. But I do think there will be less volatile.

I love Jefferson. I hope like hell he stays. But is he worth $3-4 million dollars for 1 year? He's not leading anyone to a Final 4.

 

[isucy86]

It would stink if JJ is gone. Really liked his game.

But the reality is, his money is now freed up. There are a lot of portal kids out there unsigned so the staff needs to bring in the next JJ.

 

[SoleCyclone]

Kim Mulkey says hi...

Why? And who cares about that Karen

 

[BlitzkriegCy]

Toure is out because of injury and now Jefferson… my lord! Adversity strikes! What can we do? LFG!

 

[BCClone]

Finding freshman for the most part is worthless. Most of the time they are small contributors or non contributors and as soon as they show and flashes they get offered the big money and leave. Hope there’s another Tamin at Ames high right now, otherwise, waste of time.

At minimum you need a full bench and HS is cheaper than transfers usually so you recruit and hope one pops a year.

 

[joefrog]

If they don't get NIL sorted out, and fast, going to lose a whole lot of fans.

How attached are you going to be when every single player is essentially on a one year contract?

Whether based on a rumor or not, get ready for players to show up limp absent some extra cash for the tourneys.

 

[Cyclones125]

It's not the courts fault. It's the powers that be who profit from this chaotic system. The power schools who are already the richest are currently benefitting from the lack of rules. It's the NCAA (i.e. power school ADs) who decided to do nothing and let the suits take over everything, because they profit from it.

Harbaugh (and I'm sure other power schools) was continuously breaking the rules at Michigan and basically daring the NCAA to punish them. During the whole conference re-alignment, there was some worry the B10 and SEC was going to leave the NCAA and just do their own league. The NCAA taking it easy on Michigan was a clear indication of who holds the power moving forward.