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Post by municup14 on Mar 16, 2024 8:39:04 GMT -6
The Trees better get ready to reload there roster if Schertz goes to a higher profile school as I can see 5 or 6 players leaving...portal sucks
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Post by aceslfer on Mar 16, 2024 17:18:26 GMT -6
portal sucks? its the only way UE gets better
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Post by Ace78 on Mar 16, 2024 17:38:29 GMT -6
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Post by ATP on Mar 16, 2024 18:49:26 GMT -6
I can see them losing Stafford despite that snip. Schwieger will stick around, though. Powell has a tough job, but he seems to be a likeable sort. I think he'd be fun to root for in any game not against the Aces. |
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Post by ad1770 on Mar 16, 2024 18:51:53 GMT -6
Good on the guys at Valpo.
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Post by purpleace79 on Mar 16, 2024 21:22:03 GMT -6
Anyone hearing Humrichous may not return, hoping its not true.
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Post by municup14 on Mar 17, 2024 5:47:50 GMT -6
portal sucks? its the only way UE gets better Yes the portal sucks,I guess I can live with a one time transfer because I thinkits here to stay,but not 2 transfers.What will your opinion be if we lose Ben to the portal. |
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Post by goacesgo on Mar 17, 2024 6:34:04 GMT -6
Anyone hearing Humrichous may not return, hoping its not true. Hopefully it’s the same source that told you Bailey will be a starter from Day 1. |
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Post by aceshigh on Mar 17, 2024 6:43:36 GMT -6
There’s not much anyone can do about the portal now. The cat is out of the bag.
I remember when Curt Floid forced free agency on professional baseball. I thought then it was going to ruin my favorite sport and my favorite team. Neither of those happened.
Transfers out equal transfers in. You might get someone you like better. However I see small schools like UE struggling to find their place from year to year.
I believe the NIL is a bigger threat to college sports. Putting together financial packages to lure top players to your program will have a greater impact than just wanting to transfer and play for a different team.
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Post by acepurple84 on Mar 17, 2024 8:11:01 GMT -6
Anyone hearing Humrichous may not return, hoping its not true. Hopefully it’s the same source that told you Bailey will be a starter from Day 1. Ben is working on his Masters. Uprooting that for another spot elsewhere would also disrupt his pursuit of his degree. |
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Post by kentuckyace on Mar 17, 2024 8:19:23 GMT -6
There’s not much anyone can do about the portal now. The cat is out of the bag. I remember when Curt Floid forced free agency on professional baseball. I thought then it was going to ruin my favorite sport and my favorite team. Neither of those happened. Transfers out equal transfers in. You might get someone you like better. However I see small schools like UE struggling to find their place from year to year. I believe the NIL is a bigger threat to college sports. Putting together financial packages to lure top players to your program will have a greater impact than just wanting to transfer and play for a different team. Nailed it, NIL is a bigger issue than portal. Without NIL, the portal is more about playing time, spotlight on a bigger stage or personality fit. With NIL it is all about the 💸💸💵💵. How much money can schools raise to pay players. I can’t blame the players, some will make more in college than they ever will after college. Case in point Oscar Tshibwe played an extra year at UK making over a million dollars and took a pay cut with Indianapolis Pacers, making half of what he made at UK in year 2 in NBA. |
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Post by ATP on Mar 17, 2024 8:44:59 GMT -6
The portal and NIL are going to turn the MVC into the same thing that happened to the MAC. The MAC's worst enemy was the portal, but more for football since Michigan and Ohio State picked their bones clean during the pandemic when nobody was watching. The MAC has taken a financial hit that has turned it into another version of the Horizon League -- and the Horizon is probably better.
The Valley programs have to come to some kind of agreement on keeping everyone afloat. How they do that ... first off, agree to not tamper with players on other Valley teams (or, for that matter, other teams they play often -- such as SEMo or Eastern or USI).
Why does that matter? They'd do it to you, right? Dunno ... I live in a naive world sometimes, hoping the 12 ADs in the conference will realize that NIL values are different from place to place. I'd wager now that the NIL generated in Wichita is twice that being generated for UIC in Chicago.
But if the Valley leaves this up to people to police their own back lot, the NCAA will let the P3 (not P6 or P5) walk all over it.
The worst part of this is to keep letting judges decide who is or is not allowed to cheat. NCAA claims jurisdiction over human lives as much as it does the "integrity of amateur sport." Congress, fortunately, isn't smart enough to manage the conversation. I suspect IU alumni will make sure the two Indiana senators know how to ignore this problem.
It's great that the athletes now have some say over their destinies, but really -- do they? They earn the right to be manipulated by people who care far less about their future than their coaches or program tutors.
To that end, what we are going to soon see is a lot of teams that compete well against each other but will be overmatched and outclassed by anybody they play that provides them with a real look at the top. You can see that at the Indiana NAIA level, where 2 or 3 teams annually go to the national tournament. All of them would be 40 points behind at halftime against Drake.
I wrote too much here, but I tend to be alert at this hour.
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Post by E-Villan on Mar 17, 2024 10:52:37 GMT -6
There’s not much anyone can do about the portal now. The cat is out of the bag. I remember when Curt Floid forced free agency on professional baseball. I thought then it was going to ruin my favorite sport and my favorite team. Neither of those happened. Transfers out equal transfers in. You might get someone you like better. However I see small schools like UE struggling to find their place from year to year. I believe the NIL is a bigger threat to college sports. Putting together financial packages to lure top players to your program will have a greater impact than just wanting to transfer and play for a different team. Agree with you that the cat is out of the bag, but I am not sure I am going to go as far as saying free agency hasn't negatively affected pro sports, especially small market teams. As far as the NIL being the biggest threat college athletics...absolutely! I understand players need some money. It's very difficult to get the college job when you are spending nearly all your free time practicing, working out or playing. What I don't understand is why we can't put some cap on it so all D-1 schools can be at a fair playing level? You have kids going for 6-figures plus and being handed a degree that 90% of the student body is going deep-ass in debt despite working two jobs to obtain. Between the increasingly annual screwing MVC-level teams are taking on Selection Sunday to the millions the P-5 are pouring into these NIL deals, it's getting harder and harder to be a collegiate sports fan. |
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Post by stlscooter on Mar 17, 2024 13:15:11 GMT -6
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Post by stlscooter on Mar 17, 2024 13:19:14 GMT -6
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