1.We don’t even know the return on capital that most universities are getting on their sports programs. It may not be all that much better than other good businesses.

2. In my early 30s I sent a letter to Warren Buffett offering to PAY HIM to work for him. In my mind, the value of paying to work for HIM was greater than getting paid to do similar work for someone else. He rejected the offer. lmao

Aren’t you an avowed capital-L Libertarian? How could you possibly hold this opinion and be a champion of free-market solutions?

I think what I described IS the free market at work.

Players have a free market choice. They can go play for Calipari and gain all the advantages of a great coaching staff, his promotion, national exposure on TV, getting scouted by NBA scouts, and getting noticed by major corporations or they can go to Europe or Asia (like the Ball brothers) and get paid immediately. A free market also allows for the NBA to draft kids at whatever age it deems to be in its own best interests as a business and citizen. Everyone can also change their minds.

I don’t know which is the better value proposition. However, most kids choose school. That’s telling you something about the value proposition. I strongly suspect that if enough top young players do what the Ball family is doing, it will ultimately hurt the college game and reduce the revenue to those schools. So then the market will dictate that they improve the deal they are offering young players when they recruit them so they don’t opt to leave the country. Paying them might be the solution.

It will all get sorted out over the long haul depending on the values of the players (by players here I mean the basketball players, the NBA, European and Asian teams that will be recruiting also, agents, G-League, etc..)

A free market is not you and I deciding we think “fair” is kids getting paid in college or drafted right out of high school.

5/20 for the game, last possession he misses a free deadball foul free throw AND turns it over trying to get a shot on the possession. Holy crap.

i think it’s fine for everyone

And, per usual, you are dead wrong.

“You think you can out tank us NY, think again!!”

Every competitor for the tankathon has lost today, damn.

The thing that irritates me about the NCAA is the idea of young, generally poor and black people, being “gifted” scholarships to produce millions of dollars for universities and the NCAA. That’s all. I’m not against sport related scholarship or college sports, but against this bs that somehow colleges “pay back” what they receive from these talented people.

They don’t and it doesn’t even come close to it. It annoys me that these guys have control over a young player’s choice of dedicating him or herself to a sport as a profession.

Yes, obviously going to a big program benefits players in some ways, but I am sure a top prospect in the end makes a lot more for his school than he gets for himself. I don’t think the NCAA should completely die but they shouldn’t have control over these young people’s careers for their own profit.

the players have the most to lose but it really only affects the best of the best…. someone like jahlil okafor has no where to go but down… and he did.. he was consensus #1 ahead of towns and everyone.. and he wound up lower than that…. a lot of other folks wind up increasing their stock substantially… someone like trae young is a good example…

yea the players will get paid but if you’re a real nba prospect your payday will come…. what matters is whether or not the marginal players will get paid and if they can develop in that environment… the gleague has to be a lot more than what it is now in order to support that and quite frankly i don’t think the economics is never gonna be right for that… the ncaa has always been a free developmental league and it’s pretty tough to beat free…..