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Post by nycrusader2010 on May 10, 2023 14:17:07 GMT -5
DFW, Does not Gtown participate in the NLI as a member of the Big East in most sports ? Of course they do. Pretty sure his comments are football specific.
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Post by longsuffering on May 10, 2023 14:33:00 GMT -5
The NLI not being an NCAA regulation is curious. It's a voluntary agreement between participating schools, but not voted on by recruits and their parents/guardians. Why should a sought after "can't miss" recruit sign one? Why not just accept a scholarship at his number one school and decline to sign any restrictive covenant?
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Post by HC92 on May 10, 2023 14:38:05 GMT -5
The NLI not being an NCAA regulation is curious. It's a voluntary agreement between participating schools, but not voted on by recruits and their parents/guardians. Why should a sought after "can't miss" recruit sign one? Why not just accept a scholarship at his number one school and decline to sign any restrictive covenant? Because you want to lock in your spot. Depends how high up the recruit food chain you are. If you’re the top recruit in the country, you might be able to get away with that. If they can replace you with someone who will sign the NLI, you may not have a spot any longer.
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Post by longsuffering on May 10, 2023 14:51:52 GMT -5
I wonder if "Bronny" signed anything. His father went straight from HS to the NBA and skipped the NLI, unless he actually signed at a college as a back up plan. Can't remember.
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Post by nycrusader2010 on May 10, 2023 15:51:00 GMT -5
I wonder if "Bronny" signed anything. His father went straight from HS to the NBA and skipped the NLI, unless he actually signed at a college as a back up plan. Can't remember. LeBron was such an obvious HS to the pros prospect that I don't even remember any sort of college recruiting courtship being a story. I don't think he really went through much, if any of the formal recruiting and visiting process - he was so big by his JR year of HS that any activity or rumor would've been all over Sports Center at that time. I'm sure he signed an agent and started working out for the draft the day after he won state at SVSM. And LeBron's prep career was right before the start of kids starting to get ridiculous with super early verbal college commitments. Had he been born 5 years later, he likely would've "committed" to a school as an 8th or 9th grader. LeBron may have been the reason for the ensuing media obsession with covering high school hoopsters, not just as seniors but even much earlier in their careers => see OJ Mayo, Michael Beasley and Lance Stephenson...more recently the total flop (so far) Emoni Bates. And this has led to HS players becoming pariahs who now switch districts/schools 5 times between 7th grade and their PG year. There wasn't even much debate about whether or not LeBron would go #1 -- and that was in a star-studded draft that included Carmelo Anthony, Darko Milicic, Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh. Milicic was actually the #2 pick, which was widely believed to have been up in the air between him and Melo. The Pistons took Milicic, and went on to win the NBA title the next year with Darko not even sniffing the court come playoffs minus garbage time. Ironically, the Pistons might have actually been better off royally screwing up that pick because had they drafted Carmelo it would have likely shaken up the incredible chemistry that developed on their team that year, which won the NBA title. And with Carmelo, they probably wouldn't have traded for Rasheed Wallace mid-season -- wouldn't have been enough shots to go around. When asked about it later on, LeBron stated that he would have attended Ohio State had the one-and-done policy been in place at the time he graduated high school. Knowing LeBron, my guess is he actually would've initially committed to OSU and then changed his commitment to North Carolina on signing day.
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Post by mm67 on May 10, 2023 15:58:16 GMT -5
Could the NLI be an agreement in restraint of trade?
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Post by hchoops on May 10, 2023 16:05:10 GMT -5
DFW Such as basketball ?
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Post by hchoops on May 10, 2023 16:09:47 GMT -5
I wonder if "Bronny" signed anything. His father went straight from HS to the NBA and skipped the NLI, unless he actually signed at a college as a back up plan. Can't remember. LeBron was such an obvious HS to the pros prospect that I don't even remember any sort of college recruiting courtship being a story. I don't think he really went through much, if any of the formal recruiting and visiting process - he was so big by his JR year of HS that any activity or rumor would've been all over Sports Center at that time. I'm sure he signed an agent and started working out for the draft the day after he won state at SVSM. And LeBron's prep career was right before the start of kids starting to get ridiculous with super early verbal college commitments. Had he been born 5 years later, he likely would've "committed" to a school as an 8th or 9th grader. LeBron may have been the reason for the ensuing media obsession with covering high school hoopsters, not just as seniors but even much earlier in their careers => see OJ Mayo, Michael Beasley and Lance Stephenson...more recently the total flop (so far) Emoni Bates. And this has led to HS players becoming pariahs who now switch districts/schools 5 times between 7th grade and their PG year. There wasn't even much debate about whether or not LeBron would go #1 -- and that was in a star-studded draft that included Carmelo Anthony, Darko Milicic, Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh. Milicic was actually the #2 pick, which was widely believed to have been up in the air between him and Melo. The Pistons took Milicic, and went on to win the NBA title the next year with Darko not even sniffing the court come playoffs minus garbage time. Ironically, the Pistons might have actually been better off royally screwing up that pick because had they drafted Carmelo it would have likely shaken up the incredible chemistry that developed on their team that year, which won the NBA title. And with Carmelo, they probably wouldn't have traded for Rasheed Wallace mid-season -- wouldn't have been enough shots to go around. When asked about it later on, LeBron stated that he would have attended Ohio State had the one-and-done policy been in place at the time he graduated high school. Knowing LeBron, my guess is he actually would've initially committed to OSU and then changed his commitment to North Carolina on signing day. Lebron has also said that if he had been going to college, it would have been home town Akron. I believe Akron had just hired his HS coach, Keith Dambrot, whose son played with Lebron and who was going to play for his father. I think that Lebron has been a financial contributor to Akron U.
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Post by nycrusader2010 on May 10, 2023 16:19:49 GMT -5
LeBron was such an obvious HS to the pros prospect that I don't even remember any sort of college recruiting courtship being a story. I don't think he really went through much, if any of the formal recruiting and visiting process - he was so big by his JR year of HS that any activity or rumor would've been all over Sports Center at that time. I'm sure he signed an agent and started working out for the draft the day after he won state at SVSM. And LeBron's prep career was right before the start of kids starting to get ridiculous with super early verbal college commitments. Had he been born 5 years later, he likely would've "committed" to a school as an 8th or 9th grader. LeBron may have been the reason for the ensuing media obsession with covering high school hoopsters, not just as seniors but even much earlier in their careers => see OJ Mayo, Michael Beasley and Lance Stephenson...more recently the total flop (so far) Emoni Bates. And this has led to HS players becoming pariahs who now switch districts/schools 5 times between 7th grade and their PG year. There wasn't even much debate about whether or not LeBron would go #1 -- and that was in a star-studded draft that included Carmelo Anthony, Darko Milicic, Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh. Milicic was actually the #2 pick, which was widely believed to have been up in the air between him and Melo. The Pistons took Milicic, and went on to win the NBA title the next year with Darko not even sniffing the court come playoffs minus garbage time. Ironically, the Pistons might have actually been better off royally screwing up that pick because had they drafted Carmelo it would have likely shaken up the incredible chemistry that developed on their team that year, which won the NBA title. And with Carmelo, they probably wouldn't have traded for Rasheed Wallace mid-season -- wouldn't have been enough shots to go around. When asked about it later on, LeBron stated that he would have attended Ohio State had the one-and-done policy been in place at the time he graduated high school. Knowing LeBron, my guess is he actually would've initially committed to OSU and then changed his commitment to North Carolina on signing day. Lebron has also said that if he had been going to college, it would have been home town Akron. I believe Akron had just hired his HS coach, Keith Dambrot, whose son played with Lebron and who was going to play for his father. I think that Lebron has been a financial contributor to Akron U. LeBron has been a tremendous philanthropist when it comes to his local community. Despite being somewhat of a politically divisive lightning rod with his outspoken views, there's no doubt that he passes the "good person test" with the most flying colors. However, there was a better chance of me turning down Holy Cross to attend Monroe College on Fordham Road than LeBron playing college ball at Akron U.
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Post by longsuffering on May 10, 2023 16:42:02 GMT -5
I wonder if "Bronny" signed anything. His father went straight from HS to the NBA and skipped the NLI, unless he actually signed at a college as a back up plan. Can't remember. LeBron was such an obvious HS to the pros prospect that I don't even remember any sort of college recruiting courtship being a story. I don't think he really went through much, if any of the formal recruiting and visiting process - he was so big by his JR year of HS that any activity or rumor would've been all over Sports Center at that time. I'm sure he signed an agent and started working out for the draft the day after he won state at SVSM. And LeBron's prep career was right before the start of kids starting to get ridiculous with super early verbal college commitments. Had he been born 5 years later, he likely would've "committed" to a school as an 8th or 9th grader. LeBron may have been the reason for the ensuing media obsession with covering high school hoopsters, not just as seniors but even much earlier in their careers => see OJ Mayo, Michael Beasley and Lance Stephenson...more recently the total flop (so far) Emoni Bates. And this has led to HS players becoming pariahs who now switch districts/schools 5 times between 7th grade and their PG year. There wasn't even much debate about whether or not LeBron would go #1 -- and that was in a star-studded draft that included Carmelo Anthony, Darko Milicic, Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh. Milicic was actually the #2 pick, which was widely believed to have been up in the air between him and Melo. The Pistons took Milicic, and went on to win the NBA title the next year with Darko not even sniffing the court come playoffs minus garbage time. Ironically, the Pistons might have actually been better off royally screwing up that pick because had they drafted Carmelo it would have likely shaken up the incredible chemistry that developed on their team that year, which won the NBA title. And with Carmelo, they probably wouldn't have traded for Rasheed Wallace mid-season -- wouldn't have been enough shots to go around. When asked about it later on, LeBron stated that he would have attended Ohio State had the one-and-done policy been in place at the time he graduated high school. Knowing LeBron, my guess is he actually would've initially committed to OSU and then changed his commitment to North Carolina on signing day. A prequel to "The Decision."
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Post by HC92 on May 10, 2023 21:10:55 GMT -5
Don’t really care about Fordham’s next QB but this guy is in the running to succeed Sluka.
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