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Jones for Purdue took almost as many 3s as the next two below him combined and shot 35%. For UConn, Karaban, Newton and Spencer all took about the same amount of 3s and shot 44%, 37% and 32%. So you're right, this whole idea that we need this 45-50% 3PT shooter or our season is going to be a failure is kind of a panicky reaction. Give me 3-4 guys that can shoot it at 33-36% vs 2 that are at 40%+. That's what will keep defenses honest.

You don't get to that level of wealth without knowing how to have a rate of return greater than inflation.

The one I'll never forget, James Young. 2014, after UConn beat UK for the national title, this kid (a freshman at the time, surprise surprise) showing no signs of sadness/anger over losing a national championship game is whipping out t-shirts with his own "personal brand/logo". And surprise surprise, he went in the first round of the draft, played a total of 95 games across 4 years for two teams and has bounced between the G-League and Europe since. If that isn't real-deal diva, I don't know what is.

After this past year and in today's environment, I think the checkbook is wide open.

Freshman year: 32 games started, 23/76 3PT shooting, 30%. Kind of meh, right? Sophomore year, same coach: 36 games started, 88/220 3PT shooting, 40%. Say hi to Yogi Ferrell, btw. Kids develop skills. Kids enhance skills. Kids evolve their game. Watch TJD as a sophomore and tell me that this kid would be leading fast breaks as a senior. Go back and watch DJ White as a freshman vs a senior: went from a high flying mid-range shot blocker into a low post beast. We have talented players, even ones that were on the roster last year. Give them time.

Have you watched a UK basketball game in the last 15 years? There were plenty of genuine articles that went through Teflon John's system.

Old people don't necessarily have to have old perspectives though. The ability to see that change is necessary despite it being against our own personal preferences is wisdom.

Is it really an "amateur" sport when there are multi-billion dollar media contracts? I've said it other places as well.....none of this is new, it's just legal to talk about now. Paying players has been going on since John Wooden in the 1970s.

That's because for you and me, those are our "good old days". In 35 years, there's going to be guys in their mid 30s-50s saying "Can you believe that as little as 35 years ago, they weren't paying these guys? But I don't know about XYZ-change....I think it ruins the integrity of the game." 35 years ago, it was "Can you believe that 25 years ago, the slam dunk was illegal? It's part of what makes the game exciting. I don't know about this 3 point line stuff though...ruins the integrity of the game."

I don't think it's envy so much as human beings are inherently resistant to change. We like getting in our own little comfort zones and staying there. That's why change is more often evolutionary vs revolutionary. It's not so much that we view change as bad, it's just different. And in today's world, the threat of change is possibly even more potent than actual change. Social media and the 24/7 news cycle causes information to get spread at incredibly fast rates. Sometimes too fast, in the case of mis-information. People grab one nugget of information and think their entire world is going to change. When in reality, it's not.

My initial reaction was "Why the generator? Just run a power inverter and possibly install a 2nd battery...." My next reaction was "Why am I trying to improve the engineering on a window A/C unit duct taped to a Geo Prizm?"

There's a reason that the old "company store" business model doesn't exist anymore. Why? Because it sucks getting paid in scrip whenever there are people out there getting s**t rich in actual money from your efforts. Here is one thing that will not change: the media rights to college basketball/football generate huge amounts of dollars. And we're not talking drips and drabs. These are obscene amounts. Scrooge McDuck money bin amounts. The university is making god knows how much. Your coach and possibly even his top assistant are making 7 figures. And you're supposed to put your body on the line in exchange for a scholarship that isn't going to cost the university even $100K over 4 years and have to live by rules where someone can't buy you a damn bagel? "....I owe my soul to the company store......" The concept of playing as a team and for each other isn't dead. Look at the back to back seasons UConn has had. 99% of kids aren't asking for the whole pie, just their slice. And believe it or not, even the bench players are getting paid and some are even doing some good with it. Anthony Leal made enough NIL money in one year to pay off his sister's 4 years of student loans in full and have some left over.

All of the following are real quotes from high-major D1 college basketball coaches: Sounds like they're talking about the portal/NIL, doesn't it? They're not. Know what they're talking about? They're talking about the exact thing that everyone in this thread is clamoring for, even the "old school" guys..... All of the above quotes are from 1986-87, and the coaches are talking about the adoption of the 3 point line. Just a reminder that even in our own personal "good old days", there was a "get off my lawn" guy yearning for HIS "good old days". Things are always evolving. That doesn't make change inherently good or inherently bad, but change is always present.

Hey, that's more Lionel Richie. "Ohhhh what a feeling.....when there's panties on the ceiling....."

2nd weekend of the tournament. Don't really care how we get there. March is all that matters.

Carlino was originally committed to Arizona, then IU, then wound up at UCLA, BYU and Marquette, in that order.

Then he’d likely be the oldest current college coach.

"I will not be the Alabama coach" - Nick Saban

I hate to root against anyone, but I hope May crashes and burns at Michigan just to spite every IU fan that is consumed with him. If he didn't serve as a manager under Knight, you'd see 2/3rds fewer posts about him here.

I never said "leading the charge". There is a level of involvement between "leading the charge" and "someone else does that".

Whiteyball: Leadoff man hits a single, steals 2nd, bunt him over to 3rd, scores on a sac fly. Repeat 8x. RIP

He's probably involved also, but if I'm giving money to a basketball program, I'd sure as hell want a basketball coach talking to me, not just an administrator.

Given what qualifies as journalism nowadays, I think I'm overqualified.

Just for my own clarification....his first name is pronounced the same as "Omar", right?