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    Payton Sandfort NBA Draft Writeup

    With NIL, I'd normally say a guy projected to go in the 2nd round might as well come back to college. What could make this year different is that this is projected to be one of the worst draft classes in a long time. Even if Payton makes big improvements next year, he might slip in a more...
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    Perkins to Mizzou

    Professional players often make more than coaches. You said you don’t think any player other than Caitlin Clark is worth $400k. That is categorically false.
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    Perkins to Mizzou

    That basically already happens. If players cannot get playing time at a bigger school, they go to a smaller school. What do you think the big difference would be?
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    Perkins to Mizzou

    I don't remember if I was considered an "employee", but I do know that my stipend was taxed, but scholarship was not taxed. I was a TA for the business school (microeconomics) while I was going to law school.
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    Perkins to Mizzou

    My most charitable interpretation of Tony saying it is not about the money is that he could have bailed Iowa earlier to make more money, but he liked playing for Fran and the university. But if he means something else, I struggle to see how he is right. I find it nearly impossible to believe...
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    Perkins to Mizzou

    My most charitable interpretation Athletic department directly, and indirect benefit to the school. For example, success in athletics has been shown to increase student applications. There is also indirect economic benefits to the school (visitors, merchandise purchases, etc.). A lot may also...
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    Perkins to Mizzou

    When I was a TA at Iowa, my scholarship was not taxable, but my stipend was taxable. It would not be difficult to draft rules similar for college athletes. In my opinion: Allow each college athlete to opt-into employee status. Some athletes are not valuable enough to command more than the...
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    Perkins to Mizzou

    The players are as valuable as what people are willing to pay them. The market is clearly showing that a player like Tony Perkins is worth at least $400k, and they’d be worth even more if the rules didn’t prevent them from being treated as employees.
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    Arkansas Men's Basketball has at least $5 Million Each Year for NIL to Pay its Players

    Title IX requires equality in participation, not spending. They need to offer a proportionate amount of female scholarships as male scholarships in order to have proportionate participation. However, outside of scholarships, every division 1 school spends much more on men's athletics than they...
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    Arkansas Men's Basketball has at least $5 Million Each Year for NIL to Pay its Players

    Not all athletes would need to be paid the same, just like not all coaches are paid the same.
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    Okay moving on. Who’s gonna watch Fever games?

    The haters are motivating me to cheer on Caitlin in her WNBA career. Maybe the old women players really are trying to grow the game by dissing Caitlin, because it has certainly made me more interested.
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    Arkansas Men's Basketball has at least $5 Million Each Year for NIL to Pay its Players

    Seems inevitable that the players eventually become employees and can share in TV revenue, ticket sales, etc. The sooner that happens, the better, for a school like Iowa.
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    Despite All This Team Has Done For Women's BB & Athletics, The Entire, Grifting, DEI Platform Wants Iowa to Lose Today

    What could possibly explain why someone who has averaged 28.4 career PPG has received more fanfare than someone that averaged 14.1 PPG? Must be their race! Many call Caitlin the female Steph Curry because she takes longer 3s than any female player we’ve ever seen. Is Curry only popular because...
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    Transfer Portal Targets

    I think Harding can be capable of being a starter. He is a tremendous passer that would flourish if surrounded by shooters. With Perkins and Krikke gone, I expect next year’s team will have more outside shooting threats. We have 3 guaranteed starters (Dix, Payton, Freeman) and a few guys that...
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    What drives millions of people’s stupidity when it comes to Caitlin?

    Lebron has haters. Mahomes has haters. Tom Brady had haters. Tiger and MJ had haters. The best players will always have haters. Some of Caitlin’s criticism is unique because she’s a woman, and some people don’t like seeing women being intense / emotional. Unfair double standard. It is hard to...
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    $200,000 is the starting point for an Elite Point Guard. Player not yet in Portal asking for $1,500,000

    The point of making college athletes employees is so that you can have binding contracts to avoid the Proctor fiasco - or at least require the school receiving the transfer athlete (e.g., Alabama) to buy-out the departing school (Iowa). Make all payments / contracts above the table. NIL is a...
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    $200,000 is the starting point for an Elite Point Guard. Player not yet in Portal asking for $1,500,000

    Why are you against athletes being paid for their value? Big difference between saying (1) the current NIL system is a joke and the solution is to allow athletes to opt-into employee status with binding contracts v. (2) we should continue to prohibit athletes from being compensated for their value.
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    The reasons we lost..

    Defensive rotation / positioning is terrible, time and time again. I give Fran a lot of credit for Iowa’s offensive efficiency almost always being top 15-20 in the country. But it is also crazy how many open 3s, layups, and dunks we give up simply because of dumb defensive positioning /...
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    So how’s that paying for players working out

    NILs are in a tough position because, by rule, NIL money cannot be an inducement to play for a particular school. Also worth noting that there’s plenty of athletes getting screwed where they were promised a certain amount of money from NIL that they never actually get and have no enforceable...
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    Patrick

    I don’t think he lacked ability, which is the most frustrating thing to me. He has a good combination of size, athleticism, and skill, but he plays so soft, timid, and frankly just dumb. He’s terrible on defensive rotations, and he often disrupted offensive flow by dribbling too much and then...
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