College Basketball Evolution

On 12/31/2025 at 7:19 PM, Voice of Reason said:

1. Multi year contracts are a benefit to the players. It is what every pro athlete strives for. I doubt there are any players who enjoy going into the portal every year.

2. A salary cap will be a benefit for the players as a whole. It will keep the few star players from getting all the NIL dollars from the school. Let the top tier players and their agents negotiate additional NIL outside the school NIL. Spread the school NIL to more players.

3. The salary cap plus collective bargaining should spread the wealth to more athletes.

Finally, all these rules are needed to preserve college basketball interest with the fans. 

1. You may be surprised about how many players are fired (or scholarship not renewed) and are thus forced into the portal, and how many players look forward to the portal each spring because they don't like their coach/being held accountable, they don't like competing for minutes, etc. For the GOOD players, I think you are correct. But many college players are accustomed to taking the path of least resistance as they've had things taken care of (AAU fees, new shoes/gear, modified attendance or deadline policies in the classroom, etc) during their youth days.

2. Agree that a salary cap is a good thing, though even when the salary cap was $0 college coaches still paid top players

3. There has to be a way to create a non-employee collective bargaining agreement, unless only FB, MBB, some WBB are classified as employees. Higher education institutions are already understaffed and underfunded, if they are legally required to pay non-revenue sport athletes, those sports may cease to exist.