The initial million went to the basketball team. It’s already been paid out.
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Maybe I heard him wrong, but on the radio show I thought Pollard said it went to the general fund that pays players across all sports so they didn't dip further into their reserves? If we got additional money from this tournament I'm guessing it would have went to to the same place, so its not like our players were going to get another check if we played in a money game.
I believe the breakdown was the initial million was distributed to the team and any additional earnings in this tournament was going to the general NIL fund
If he does what you say he will have a lockerroom that cares about money first.
CEO??
This clown isn't even qualified to be running the old CIML Basketball Jamboree at the Knapp Center.
It truly is the disorganized nature of this thing that has me fuming. Large amounts of money, an entire field of pretty much all respectable programs, excellent broadcast production quality...but a half-baked scheduling structure. Impossible to determine if the ambiguity was planned or the event organizers are inept.
Isn't that 6 games each team? That's a lot if spread over TWO weeks, and its what, half your non-con? That seems like a LOT.
DM Reg article says ISU is contracted for next 2 years in Vegas
Totally agree, although a true champion would require 5 games at least for the winner and runner-up. Not sure how that can be done.
Sounds like the format will not change when it goes to 32 next year. Will still be pool play and then advancement based on criteria to the championship. The quote I saw basically said "think of AAU".
Part of me thinks the format is to manufacture controversy for posts / clicks. You can't deny that while the basketball has been fantastic, rage posting has added to the publicity of the event.
Yeah there are some teams that are locked into tournaments. Houston, Kansas, Baylor, and Iowa State all have multiple year agreements with this tournament. Arizona is locked in to a different tournament for next year so they won’t be in Vegas even with a top 8 finish
I get the money aspect...
We are enjoying the games...but we don't gamble and we're not big drinkers, so from our experience as fans, we'd rather be in Maui!
Our Freshmen is going to outplay a lot of guys.
CBS after hours pod with Jeff Goodman (excellent by the way) one of the panelist said he was looking up where Toure transferred from cuz he thought he was a 4th or 5th year guy.
He said no way was that kid a freshman
Yeah, I think this is probably the right take. The more I think of it, I’m leaning toward making a donation to WeWill. It won’t touch what they “lost”…maybe there’s a larger wallet out there that will feel the same way. I think you could have been justified getting to 20, but KU fouling to try to run up the score feels wrong too. I’d rather reward integrity.
Man, I still think that St John's win is gonna be huge this year. I really think thats a good team thats gonna rack up wins.
They are good, they were still glueing pieces together when they played Bama.
They dismantled Baylor yesterday
Not calling the foul when our player got pushed into the stands at the end of game was even worse.
What do you think the ref said to him when he helped him up?
