College basketball is going to be fine, regardless of some excellent players opting to bounce straight to professional basketball. No one has ever graduated from Fort Wayne Mad Ants University or Agua Caliente Clippers of Ontario College, and so few people outside Fort Wayne and Ontario have ever heard of these G League franchises. Every year, […]
Be careful what you wish for, you just might get it. That’s the word to the wise who consider transferring from their current college basketball program to a new address. There are very few players recruited at the power five conference level who don’t believe they are just a few years away from earning tens of millions […]
SNBS – Mike DeCourcy joins to talk IU, transfers of Nojel Eastern and Justin Smith, and taking a knee during the National Anthem
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The line between adult and child glowed brightly today as the UCLA Student Council approved an incendiary resolution that was then sent to a variety of California and university officials. It reads in part, “As we look at the rampant negligence and mistreatment of student-athletes in NCAA sports, it’s clear that colleges can not be trusted with policing […]
The NCAA has transcripts of phone conversations that show beyond any rational doubt that University of Kansas basketball coach Bill Self was at least aware of major violations his program committed. Because of its labyrinthian enforcement and punishment protocols, Self is not only still the Kansas coach, it’s damn likely he will remain so until he […]
Cheating in college basketball recruiting is abhorrent because it elevates the result of the game over what should truly matter – the lessons that basketball instills in players and reinforces in fans. It’s not that winning isn’t important, but the magic of the game is the tug of war that exists between the selfish and selfless. Players […]
Five star recruit Daishen Nix has decommitted from UCLA, and will join the growing number of NBA hopefuls who will jump straight from high school to the G-League. Some are predicting a bleak future for college basketball because talented teens like Nix are shifting holding areas from college programs to the NBA’s feeder league. Not me. I’m thrilled. […]
“Trayce Jackson-Davis announces he will return to Indiana,” reads the headline at 247sports. In other self-evident news, Americans are tired of staying at home to avoid spreading the Coronavirus. Maybe Jackson-Davis had been asked repeatedly whether he had decided whether he would jump to the NBA after his freshman year, and felt the need to end the questioning […]
The Class of 2007 was a special incubator of talent – on the basketball court and off. Watching my son Ryan compete with and against the best of that class from the time he was nine was a gift and privilege. It seemed like every kid had special talent, and not only was every game […]
You get to a certain level of life experience, and no level of stupidity surprises you anymore. HBO’s documentary “The Scheme” debuted last night, and the idiocy and greed in college basketball was so thick among all participants that I was stunned by it. Christian Dawkins was a runner for a sports agent who built relationships […]
