College Basketball 2025-26 Season Thread

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While I’m sure making money is nice, and I’m sure the the players would prefer that over the way things used to be, I do imagine that NIL + the portal has taken some of the fun out of the game for a lot of players. Now that so many players have essentially become mercenaries, it likely takes away from the camaraderie that was built when players played together and shared experiences over the course of a few years. That camaraderie probably made things more fun in general.
 
Icky Mettle said:
While I’m sure making money is nice, and I’m sure the the players would prefer that over the way things used to be, I do imagine that NIL + the portal has taken some of the fun out of the game for a lot of players. Now that so many players have essentially become mercenaries, it likely takes away from the camaraderie that was built when players played together and shared experiences over the course of a few years. That camaraderie probably made things more fun in general.
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Yea
Those days are largely over
Sad
 
Icky Mettle said:
While I’m sure making money is nice, and I’m sure the the players would prefer that over the way things used to be, I do imagine that NIL + the portal has taken some of the fun out of the game for a lot of players. Now that so many players have essentially become mercenaries, it likely takes away from the camaraderie that was built when players played together and shared experiences over the course of a few years. That camaraderie probably made things more fun in general.
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Maybe but I’m not sure they know what they’re missing. It’s not like these guys lived in both environments. On the contrary, their AAU and club teams probably had high turnover as well.

It takes the sense of camaraderie and continuity away from the staff and the fans, but the players have essentially been free agents more so than members of a team, since they started hitting higher levels of the sport.
 
I thought NIL was supposed to allow players to get paid for using their name, image and likeness for products and endorsements. The whole lawsuit started because of using players in the college football video game. I do see some players in ads and endorsing products, but it seems to me they are just getting paid directly to play ball instead of it really being from NIL agreements.
 
Turd Ferguson said:
I thought NIL was supposed to allow players to get paid for using their name, image and likeness for products and endorsements. The whole lawsuit started because of using players in the college football video game. I do see some players in ads and endorsing products, but it seems to me they are just getting paid directly to play ball instead of it really being from NIL agreements.
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As I understand it, teams can now pay players directly, and NIL has to be true NIL and is over and above what the teams are paying.
 
Turd Ferguson said:
I don't agree they should be paid directly. I do think they should be paid for NIL purposes, but that could be easily worked around.
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There's a lot of people ready for your easy solution. What do you think is the selling point that will make everybody compromise? You don't have to go deep in the details but point us toward the gist of your ifea.
 
finesse said:
There's a lot of people ready for your easy solution. What do you think is the selling point that will make everybody compromise? You don't have to go deep in the details but point us toward the gist of your ifea.
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I meant work around as in they say it's a NIL deal for something but they're really not getting paid for an endorsement of any kind.
 
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