NCAA has become ungovernable over the last 40 years b/c of the large sums of money have widened the divide between the big schools and the smaller schools. All schools have fought against paying players, NIL, etc,,, for decades. They have made the NCAA the bad guy. The fact is the NCAA is made up of schools and the AD;s , Presidents every year have their meetings on rules, guidelines, governance, etc.. They have had major input and vote on all the things they like to complain about or actually what some complain about b/c it doesn't benefit them as much. There is a divide between the big schools(P5) and others G5 always. The NCAA a collective for all schools has in part been torn by this divide. The big schools are now recently pro NIL, playoff, free transfer, etc... b/c they see how they can get even more money and power. They can almost cut out the small schools. They can get the best players via NIL over small schools. Even if they miss a top kid, if they have a great year at a small school they can immediately be lured via NIL and a free transfer to the power schools.
Finally someone objectivity and intelligent analysis on NIL from someone experienced on college athletics. Jay Bilas was a player at a top program, he’s a lawyer, former coach and also color commentator and analysts for the last 25 plus years. He’s over qualified to speak on this matter and he’s spot on. Pay the players and quit crying that you can’t exploit them anymore. “You don’t like it leave”. Nothings being ruined. Quality of life for these players will improve dramatically for these players during and after their playing days.
THEY ARE STUDENT-ATHLETES!! AT BEST THEY ARE SEMI-PROFESSIONALS! I KNOW MOST FANS SEEM TO FORGET THIS FACT, BUT THESE "PLAYERS" ATTEND CLASSES, HAVE ASSIGNMENTS, MUST MAINTAIN A CERTAIN GRADE POINT AVERAGE TO CONTINUE TO BE ELIGIBLE TO PLAY (2.3 AT THE D-1/FBS LEVEL) ...
As crazy as it might seem, NIL has the potential of saving college basketball and the NBA. We might actually see talented guys not quite ready or mature enough for the NBA (but would've been drafted regardless) staying in school longer, making both NCAA and NBA a better product
@@Brit-i9e the NBA needs to figure out how to tie player earnings to winning. These guys make so much money now, their contracts dwarfing everyone in the organizations outside the owners, that they seemingly don't care as much about putting in a max effort every game. Load management has also killed the game. Then there is Lebron, the most hated superstar athlete in US history, who has singlehandedly destroyed what Mikan, Russell, Wilt, Kareem, Bird, MJ and many others built. Kobe was a great torch carrier. Lebron has been a polarizing disaster who creates fake hate crimes to be the victim of and calls for the lynching of hero cops.
He kinda missed the point trying to act hard. Everyone is past the players getting paid. He’s acting like this is 2005. The question was more aimed towards the transfer portal and no guard rails and the coaches wasting time recruiting players and fundraising. Which he didn’t answer. Just lost the best head coach of all time and head coach of the National Championship. Guy blew all that smoke for nothing
@@Sharkman1963 I really like Jay Bilas as a commentator & he does make great points; my issue with his views on this subject is that he is treating the COLLEGE basketball players as if they are PROFESSIONAL players. (Let's face it: we both know college football & basketball players right now are semi-professional athletes masquerading as "students" ...)
Bilas's entire argument works great for the top 25-40 schools in the country, but for all the others it's a nightmare. This is going to create a small group of "have endless money" & a gigantic group of "have nots". Anyone who thinks "private equity" is going to help this situation is an amoral fool, private equity will exploit everyone WORSE than the schools
They need to only truly define what NIL is when it comes to the way in which the payments can be made. Having collective groups (alums & boosters) creatively disguise these payments as charity work or some other funneled payment system causes issues. Signing them to contracts as employees has to be carefully considered due to the ability of those institutions athletes to then unionize and collective bargain against the schools to argue for medical, dental, vision, retirement, etc etc. this opens a whole other can of worms for these programs and the NCAA as a whole. NIL isn’t the issue it’s the coupling of the transfer portal with it that made this professional sports in a sense.
As a UConn fan, props to Creighton. they were on absolute fire from deep. No one was beating them last night. I am totally good with that beat down and felt the Huskies needed some humbling as we enter March. I think that loss will galvanize this bunch.
NIL helps lessen 1 and done and the best teams aren't throwing 5 freshmen out there. The quality is better now than ever with seasoned guys staying in college, transferring and helping bigger schools. Look at Dalton Knecht..... If you ever heard of him or watched him.
@@MrAitraining Yes from Tennessee however NIL has been around for what 2 years? It will take time for it to kick in, 1 and done is nba rule that ruined it.
Most schools know that's not the way to win now anyway. Players are staying more because of NIL and Almost all the best teams have experience because you need it. Cal needs to adapt to that. Can't just play boys anymore. Need some men and the game quality is better imo than 10 yrs ago
It should all be the MLB rules. Guys can go straight to NBA/G league out of HS, but if they go to college, they are there until they're three years removed from HS. Everyone wins with this setup.
@@BlyGuy they arent going to do that. So if Victor Wembanyama went to college in the U.S to Tune up for a yr, you'd force him to stay 3? Never happen. NIL incentive and portal is already keeping guys in college an extra yr or 2. College Game is good now.
@@MrAitraining that's a bad example since he was already a professional in Europe. He'd obviously not go to a US college for any amount of time. Edit - I agree college product is benefitting from NIL and encouraging guys to stay in school longer. I just think it's a win for all involved if the NBA went to the MLB model. The elite of the elite go pro, the rest go to school for at least three years.
Maybe I'm just old fashioned and naive, but this musical chairs and professionalization of traditional collegiate athletics is bad. The pressure to pay players, which Jay pointed out has always been there, arises from the seed of corruption. Let's face it, Wooden's dynasty half a century ago was built on corruption primarily funded by a financier of the drug cartels in those days. That's just fact, and it isn't the only example merely the most succesful one. So the way college athletics has gone is to say "that's just reality" and buckle, stubbornly, to immorality. NIL in my opinion is fine. I always thought it was unfair for institutions and the NCAA to profit from these contracts and leave the players out. But pay for play, the transfer portal, all of that as I see it is merely a collapse of a small but formerly beloved aspect of American civilization. Jay is an attorney and I appreciate his take on this from a practical, legal standpoint. It is too late to go back and adopting rules that bring some order to the chaos is a good thing. But the seed was corruption and it is despicable in my opinion not to at least point that out.
The schools have fought against paying players, NIL, etc,,, for decades. They have made the NCAA the bad guy. The fact is the NCAA is made up of schools and the AD;s , Presidents every year have their meetings on rules, guidelines, governance, etc.. They have had major input and vote on all the things they like to complain about or actually what some complain about b/c it doesn't benefit them as much. There is a divide between the big schools(P5) and others G5 always. The NCAA a collective for all schools has in part been torn by this divide. The big schools are now recently pro NIL, playoff, free transfer, etc... b/c they see how they can get even more money and power. They can almost cut out the small schools. They can get the best players via NIL over small schools. Even if they miss a top kid, if they have a great year at a small school they can immediately be lured via NIL and a free transfer to the power schools.
Jay does realize that the NCAA is a collective of all schools that the organization represents. All the members vote & have equal votes. That's the rub between what the big schools want & small schools. When players start to get paid all the no P4 schools will be destroyed athletically. They will not have the money to compete with the mega football schools and even that is going dwindled down to the SEC and B10 having way more money than the B12 and ACC. College basketball which is his game will see the demise of the smaller bball emphasis schools in conferences like the Big East or AAC or even a Gonzaga. They won't have the money to pay to get the top players, they will flock to the power conference schools that can pay the most. It will be a pure haves and have nots more than it already was before.
No Rich, it’s bc players are getting paid. Inducement is an excuse. Look at Caleb Williams, moving from OK to USC bc USC paid him more. And you pretend he is a generational talent when he’s not, and that’s bc he plays in LA.
i see bilas is all in on ruining college sports.i mean i like jay,imo he is the best color guy in the sport,but the players dont want contracts ,gotta be a way to limit what they get paid, college sports are now run by the players and that will backfire. maybe im wrong
Time to make Jay Bilas president of the NCAA.
Not ncaa just college basketball
NCAA has become ungovernable over the last 40 years b/c of the large sums of money have widened the divide between the big schools and the smaller schools. All schools have fought against paying players, NIL, etc,,, for decades. They have made the NCAA the bad guy. The fact is the NCAA is made up of schools and the AD;s , Presidents every year have their meetings on rules, guidelines, governance, etc.. They have had major input and vote on all the things they like to complain about or actually what some complain about b/c it doesn't benefit them as much. There is a divide between the big schools(P5) and others G5 always. The NCAA a collective for all schools has in part been torn by this divide. The big schools are now recently pro NIL, playoff, free transfer, etc... b/c they see how they can get even more money and power. They can almost cut out the small schools. They can get the best players via NIL over small schools. Even if they miss a top kid, if they have a great year at a small school they can immediately be lured via NIL and a free transfer to the power schools.
Finally someone objectivity and intelligent analysis on NIL from someone experienced on college athletics. Jay Bilas was a player at a top program, he’s a lawyer, former coach and also color commentator and analysts for the last 25 plus years. He’s over qualified to speak on this matter and he’s spot on. Pay the players and quit crying that you can’t exploit them anymore. “You don’t like it leave”. Nothings being ruined. Quality of life for these players will improve dramatically for these players during and after their playing days.
THEY ARE STUDENT-ATHLETES!! AT BEST THEY ARE SEMI-PROFESSIONALS! I KNOW MOST FANS SEEM TO FORGET THIS FACT, BUT THESE "PLAYERS" ATTEND CLASSES, HAVE ASSIGNMENTS, MUST MAINTAIN A CERTAIN GRADE POINT AVERAGE TO CONTINUE TO BE ELIGIBLE TO PLAY (2.3 AT THE D-1/FBS LEVEL) ...
As crazy as it might seem, NIL has the potential of saving college basketball and the NBA. We might actually see talented guys not quite ready or mature enough for the NBA (but would've been drafted regardless) staying in school longer, making both NCAA and NBA a better product
@@BlyGuy fair enough; after seeing the results of this weekend's NBA All=Star Game, they could DEFINITRLY use improvement ...
@@Brit-i9e the NBA needs to figure out how to tie player earnings to winning. These guys make so much money now, their contracts dwarfing everyone in the organizations outside the owners, that they seemingly don't care as much about putting in a max effort every game.
Load management has also killed the game. Then there is Lebron, the most hated superstar athlete in US history, who has singlehandedly destroyed what Mikan, Russell, Wilt, Kareem, Bird, MJ and many others built.
Kobe was a great torch carrier. Lebron has been a polarizing disaster who creates fake hate crimes to be the victim of and calls for the lynching of hero cops.
He kinda missed the point trying to act hard. Everyone is past the players getting paid. He’s acting like this is 2005. The question was more aimed towards the transfer portal and no guard rails and the coaches wasting time recruiting players and fundraising. Which he didn’t answer. Just lost the best head coach of all time and head coach of the National Championship. Guy blew all that smoke for nothing
I love it when smart people like Jay explain situations clearly without talking down to anyone.
Jay Bilas always calls it how it is
Love Jay Bilas. My favorite 🏀 analyst
Been a great season and I love February. The conference battles before the march war has been awesome.
What's really unsustainable is the price the universities are charging for an education
Thank you Jay
Dalton Knecht is such a baller. The whole state of Tennessee is praying he can carry us in the big dance when we need it🙏
Jay Bilas is great
EXCEPT ON THIS ISSUE ...
@@Brit-i9e What did he get wrong?
@@Sharkman1963 I really like Jay Bilas as a commentator & he does make great points; my issue with his views on this subject is that he is treating the COLLEGE basketball players as if they are PROFESSIONAL players. (Let's face it: we both know college football & basketball players right now are semi-professional athletes masquerading as "students" ...)
I appreciate the explanation and the education while drinking my coffee…
Question for Jay Bilas: Is that a picture of Turk Broda on your PTI interviews
Bilas's entire argument works great for the top 25-40 schools in the country, but for all the others it's a nightmare. This is going to create a small group of "have endless money" & a gigantic group of "have nots".
Anyone who thinks "private equity" is going to help this situation is an amoral fool, private equity will exploit everyone WORSE than the schools
They need to only truly define what NIL is when it comes to the way in which the payments can be made. Having collective groups (alums & boosters) creatively disguise these payments as charity work or some other funneled payment system causes issues. Signing them to contracts as employees has to be carefully considered due to the ability of those institutions athletes to then unionize and collective bargain against the schools to argue for medical, dental, vision, retirement, etc etc. this opens a whole other can of worms for these programs and the NCAA as a whole. NIL isn’t the issue it’s the coupling of the transfer portal with it that made this professional sports in a sense.
UConn got blown out
As a UConn fan, props to Creighton. they were on absolute fire from deep. No one was beating them last night.
I am totally good with that beat down and felt the Huskies needed some humbling as we enter March. I think that loss will galvanize this bunch.
Still probably going final four
1 and done ruined college basketball, so yes we barely watch until football is over with.
Lmaoooo
Don’t talk about things that you don’t understand
NIL helps lessen 1 and done and the best teams aren't throwing 5 freshmen out there. The quality is better now than ever with seasoned guys staying in college, transferring and helping bigger schools. Look at Dalton Knecht..... If you ever heard of him or watched him.
Well NBA ruined CBB because that was their rule. What dont I understand?@@Shortyd17
@@MrAitraining Yes from Tennessee however NIL has been around for what 2 years? It will take time for it to kick in, 1 and done is nba rule that ruined it.
Jay pick the worst example of Texas vs Texas tech. Tech is top 5 in conference and Texas is bottom 3. What terrible actual basketball analysis.
No one cheers for the destruction of college athletics like Jay Bilas
College basketball needs to get rid of the one and done rule since nil is in effect
Most schools know that's not the way to win now anyway. Players are staying more because of NIL and Almost all the best teams have experience because you need it. Cal needs to adapt to that. Can't just play boys anymore. Need some men and the game quality is better imo than 10 yrs ago
It should all be the MLB rules. Guys can go straight to NBA/G league out of HS, but if they go to college, they are there until they're three years removed from HS. Everyone wins with this setup.
@@BlyGuy they arent going to do that. So if Victor Wembanyama went to college in the U.S to Tune up for a yr, you'd force him to stay 3? Never happen. NIL incentive and portal is already keeping guys in college an extra yr or 2. College Game is good now.
@@MrAitraining that's a bad example since he was already a professional in Europe. He'd obviously not go to a US college for any amount of time.
Edit - I agree college product is benefitting from NIL and encouraging guys to stay in school longer. I just think it's a win for all involved if the NBA went to the MLB model. The elite of the elite go pro, the rest go to school for at least three years.
@@BlyGuy Victor is an unreasonable example but professionals in Europe are playing in college right now. UCLA has 2 of them alone
Maybe I'm just old fashioned and naive, but this musical chairs and professionalization of traditional collegiate athletics is bad. The pressure to pay players, which Jay pointed out has always been there, arises from the seed of corruption. Let's face it, Wooden's dynasty half a century ago was built on corruption primarily funded by a financier of the drug cartels in those days. That's just fact, and it isn't the only example merely the most succesful one. So the way college athletics has gone is to say "that's just reality" and buckle, stubbornly, to immorality. NIL in my opinion is fine. I always thought it was unfair for institutions and the NCAA to profit from these contracts and leave the players out. But pay for play, the transfer portal, all of that as I see it is merely a collapse of a small but formerly beloved aspect of American civilization. Jay is an attorney and I appreciate his take on this from a practical, legal standpoint. It is too late to go back and adopting rules that bring some order to the chaos is a good thing. But the seed was corruption and it is despicable in my opinion not to at least point that out.
Get rid of the ncaa. Let the schools handle it.
The schools have fought against paying players, NIL, etc,,, for decades. They have made the NCAA the bad guy. The fact is the NCAA is made up of schools and the AD;s , Presidents every year have their meetings on rules, guidelines, governance, etc.. They have had major input and vote on all the things they like to complain about or actually what some complain about b/c it doesn't benefit them as much. There is a divide between the big schools(P5) and others G5 always. The NCAA a collective for all schools has in part been torn by this divide. The big schools are now recently pro NIL, playoff, free transfer, etc... b/c they see how they can get even more money and power. They can almost cut out the small schools. They can get the best players via NIL over small schools. Even if they miss a top kid, if they have a great year at a small school they can immediately be lured via NIL and a free transfer to the power schools.
money ruins everything
Jay does realize that the NCAA is a collective of all schools that the organization represents. All the members vote & have equal votes. That's the rub between what the big schools want & small schools. When players start to get paid all the no P4 schools will be destroyed athletically. They will not have the money to compete with the mega football schools and even that is going dwindled down to the SEC and B10 having way more money than the B12 and ACC. College basketball which is his game will see the demise of the smaller bball emphasis schools in conferences like the Big East or AAC or even a Gonzaga. They won't have the money to pay to get the top players, they will flock to the power conference schools that can pay the most. It will be a pure haves and have nots more than it already was before.
And just like that, Creighton beats UConn by . . . 19.
Not so fast Bilas😅
No Rich, it’s bc players are getting paid. Inducement is an excuse.
Look at Caleb Williams, moving from
OK to USC bc USC paid him more.
And you pretend he is a generational talent when he’s not, and that’s bc he plays in LA.
i see bilas is all in on ruining college sports.i mean i like jay,imo he is the best color guy in the sport,but the players dont want contracts ,gotta be a way to limit what they get paid, college sports are now run by the players and that will backfire. maybe im wrong
They lose hours later lol
College Basketball analyst on, but not once talked about the actual game that he analyzes. Smh
What game? He does 2-3 games a week. Watch more. This is a multi topic discussion
Bilas Bias is a thing...