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BREAKING: FBI has arrested several NCAA asst. Basketball coaches in corruption scheme
- Thread starter El Poyo Loco
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Well if the NCAA ever fell then the NBA would be forced to invest real money into their development leagues.
Or they could partner with the shoe companies to create a proper, more well funded development league.
There's no simple solution
Yeah you're either a fan or completely irrational
why would they do this when they have a free minor league system?
It makes them visable. Which in turn allow their fans to translate to fans of the team that drafts him. Which in turn translate into revenue. Its not about learning the system or any other nostalgic musings we have about the game. Its business. If it was about development, the G League would be popping. March Madness is part of the fabric of our society. Over 70 million brackets are filled out every March and close to $10B is wagered. Nobody is wiping that out for the sake of grooming players to run a back pick properly in a farm system.
fukk that.
Our run in basketball is over before we even took the court.
Bama has had 3 five star basketball recruits in 2 years
Field Marshall Bradley
Veteran
this...... the days of minor leagues are over... aint enough money in it for the owners.... let an established platform do the work for you..... cause its no longer about the game anyway....
mastermind
Rest In Power Kobe
If the NBA set up academies, like with soccer around the world, they won't have to pay them a lot to attend. Prolly just a small stipend.
mastermind
Rest In Power Kobe
It's not a minor league
It's their own academies.
Visible to whom? Ben Simmons and Markelle Fulkz didn't make the tournament the last two years and were still top picks.
Also, if you have a phenom like Lebron in 2001, why wouldn't you play him in the league at 16? Again, we see this in soccer. No one had ever watched Lionel Messi when he debuted for Barcelona but people were hyped for him because a 16 year old kid had made the bench for one of the biggest clubs in the world. And then he played and looked great. With proper coaching, a lot of these young high school players could make their way to NBA benches.
The NBA needs to start setting up academies to create NBA players. College basketball is not about creating NBA players.
And on top of that, you get these shoe companies to pay operational costs. They damn near do it now with these AAU tournaments and summer camps.
Thatrogueassdiaz
We're on the blood path now
This. The NCAA and NBA are in bed together. That's why things haven't changed.
Cheech&Chong
rip chinx
coach Ollie is clean 
You make a great point. But you are dismissing the fact that the NBA already has a free basketball academy.....its the NCAA. To preserve this hustle, they'll move to 2 years removed from high school to "reduce the temptation" before scrapping a $10B business.
EarlyEarly
Superstar
It's crazy this is happening now. Probably a couple months a guy I was talking high school / AAU basketball with told me several guys got paid when Andrew Wiggins went to Kansas and AAU and prep teams getting paid is a regular thing. You always assume it is, but to hear someone else actually in the know tell you and then to put pieces together yourself afterwards in detail is an eye opener. And now the feds are in cracking down on the guys at the top of it.
mastermind
Rest In Power Kobe
I am not dismissing anything.
The NCAA is not designed to create NBA players, and we are seeing shyt like coaches getting caught in FBI stings for accepting money. If you create a real academy you get these players the best coaches at younger ages, and you provide a real opportunity for players to break through early without the brushback.
Also, what I am suggesting is not going to hurt the NCAA. With the drop in talent the last ten years, and the end of hte one and done, we are realizing people like seeing the teams and coaches more than the interchangeable talent.