thedude15

I mean Bronny should stay in college another year. He is not ready for the NBA year and he will make millions in NIL money (so it is not like he is forgoing money by staying in college). Plus that gives Lebron one more year on the Lakers before he has to decide if he wants to team up with his son. For all we know Lebron might only have one more good year in him. So far easier to follow his son for his "farewell tour" if he has taken a step back as a player and no longer can be a top 2 guy on a championship level team.

Lebron is also worth 1.2 billion. So if there has ever been a player that could "throw away" 50 mil it is him. I don't think my hypothetical will happen BUT Lebron could easily afford to sign a 3 year min contract with whoever drafts his son if he wanted to.

Would be shocked if that were the case. I mean what probably around 50% of 1st round picks actually work out. It is a guarantee Lebron on his farewell tour(s) would sell tickets. Plus although I am not really a fan of Lebron I mean even today he is still probably a top 20 basketball player. Sure that is not gonna last much longer but it is a relatively safe bet that at least for next year he is gonna be a pretty good NBA player.

I mean obviously Lebron still wants to get paid but lets just say he promises to sign a 3 year deal with however drafts his son (could be a min contract if say it is the Warriors or Clippers draft him, sign and trade, singing into cap space). But my question is how high would his son be drafted? Honestly as this is a week draft I could see it be as high as #1 lol. I mean of the bottom teams San Antonio is the only team with a player they expect to become a superstar. So they are really the only team where is clearly won't make sense to jump on the Lebron train. But all the other bottom teams would probably sign up for Lebron playing the last three years of his career there...

I didn't think Henderson would ever see a meaningful snap at Texas a&m when he transfered there but he did ok in the games he played last. Part of the thing with him is his talents were not going to be used to their full potential at Fresno. Maybe it is the same for Green maybe the system will be more geared to his actual talents.

why? I mean they need some tv money for at least for the 24/25 season and probably 25/26. Guessing they drag this out the full two years as they will make more money being the pac-2 (probably mostly with NCAAT credits) than they will make once they merge with the MW.

I mean the only other actually option is to take enough schools (what 9) from the MW to dissolve itself. BUT that could open up another round of lawsuits from the MW schools that are left behind and forced to join the CUSA. I get my school (Fresno) would make the top 9 cut BUT at this point I am hoping the Pac-2 just adds all 12 MW schools and Gonzaga as a basketball only (evens out having Hawaii as football only). Would still be a slight step up from the current MW in terms of competition and tv money. Plus we can get rid of the terrible BSU deal. I am fine with an "uneven" tv deal but it should be based off performance not name and it should be subject to changed based off future performance.

Yeah I don't get Dan Hurley's complaining. UCONN has a very favorable path to the final four. As they should since they are the #1 overall seed. Also don't like his garbage about how the Big East should have go the bids over the MW. Guess what the Big East is 6-0 when they have been the higher seed in the tourney. The MW is 3-0 as the higher seed, 1-1 as the same seed, and 0-4 as the lower seed. So from that angle (at least in terms of how the NCAA seeded us) the MW has done as exactly as expected. So honestly the NCAA was right (ie giving us 6 bids but worse seeds that we expected).

This is a house money game tho. I mean even if SDSU loses by 30 it won't really be that horrible (UCONN has dominated several teams in this years and last years NCAAT). Now our other blowout loses in the tourney were pretty bad. I mean don't get me wrong wasn't expecting USU to beat Purdue but what expecting them to at least keep it somewhat close then have Purdue separate the last 10 minutes or so. I would agree this years SDSU team seems worse than last years team, this UCONN team seems better than last years teams, and UCONN is basically playing a home game. So none of that is too great... But yeah go SDSU and hopefully some magic happens.

I can see you are not an Arizona fan. I swear Ballo has 10 air ball free throws just in the 20 Arizona games I have watched this year lol.

The real surprise to me was how CSU dominated Virginia in the paint. As Virginia is the "defensive" team I didn't expect that level of domination. I mean the more traditional way for a blowout would have be Virginia having a terrible offensive game (which did happen) and CSU getting hot from the 3pt range.

No. I mean unless them become an absolute bottom feeder for like 15+ years I don't think it should even be in question. You should be the best conference you can get into. Plus the AAC has taken a step down basketball wise losing Houston/Cincy/UCF/SMU and replacing them with "lesser" basketball schools. To me the same would go for Gonzaga if they join the MW (ie soon to be Pac-12). Even if in 10 years they all the sudden are a middle of the pack at best basketball school I would still say they should stay in the best conference they can make and not "downgrade" back to the WCC.

So with just the mwt left we are basically in the same. 4 is bare minimum, 5 is the goal, 6 would be a dream. But now we also have the super dream of 7 bids. Just need csu to lose to NM in the semis and NM to lose to unlv in the finals. That would almost certainly get us 7 bids.

Since my team is absolutely horrible I am purely voting for the outcome that will help us get the most tourney teams. So go New Mexico!

My dream would be football being separate in all cases. Top 40 schools break off to create a NFL lite. Top recruits go to these schools and unfortunately probably a lot of the best players from the lower division transfer up. Have 4 ten team conferences. Play your 9 conference games plus 2 OOC (must be vs one of the other "top 40" schools). Get rid of conference champ game. Have a 16 team playoff completed played out (ie there will be a game between two 0-3 teams for 15th place) with all games at the higher seed with the exception of the semis and finals and a neutral site. This gives 16 out of 40 schools a total of 15 games. The 24 that get left out can have a "bowl game" to get them to a total of 12 games. The 96 fbs teams left add the top 24 fcs schools. Have 12 ten team conferences. Similar format with 9 conference games, 2 OOC, and a 16 team playoff. 12 conference champs and 4 at large bids. Completely play out the 16 team playoff if there is any money to be had (I get this division would make way less than the top division but I still think there would be some tv money there). Maybe have 10 bowl games so the top 30% of the division ends up making a postseason game. 30% is a far more healthy number than the current system where 64% of fbs teams make the postseason.