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*Mic Drop*

Is Iloegbunam a Sophomore? She has a 7th grade sister too who I think is pretty solid -- so they'll get one year together in a couple of years, if I have the older sister's year correct.

My lens on these guys, current and former, is a little different, but that makes this thread all the more interesting to me. I love seeing the opinions (and in some cases rationale) of those that only know them from afar.

Close? Lopsided? Any details you can share? Thanks.

Yes, 4 of 15. He was in full-on "Bagley is out" mode, although Bagley was in. :bunny:

6 of 18 with 6 turnovers -- he was horrific down the stretch for them tonight.

Tonight's results?

There was a Conner kid who was hearing it from the Cooper faithful last season (at Cooper) about a girl, apparently, from Cooper, that had broken the young man's heart. Made me cringe, but I'm not sure it rises to the "inappropriate" level.

Dream day!!!

What time will the semi's be on Saturday?

Newport vs Holy Cross Dixie vs Ryle Top half.

Anyone have it? I have heard that CovCath and Cooper drew the same side.

GRC, Camels, and Pendleton. I think Scott is just a little short of being able to win 3 straight.

My opinion: 3.

Pendleton County has to be thrilled to have Campbell Co. and GRC on the other half of the bracket. Should be fun.

Nice job, Rebels!!!!

Oh boy, I need to review some old threads. Congrats to Anderson County on a district Championship!!! Best of luck to all of the young men next week.

Athletes can earn money in College in jobs. They all make money in the summer working camps. They also getting stipends for spending money from the school, did you get spending / grocery money from the Dean? I doubt it.

Was this for the GCL Championship? 78 total points? Wow.

It really is a whole different topic, has nothing to do with the schools, but would require a ton of changes in the law. I don't know what point it is solving, but if you feel strongly about using agents to pay them, just have them all go Pro right away.

Okay, so pretending for a second that what you're proposing was legal in this country, which the Supreme Court has said it isn't, let's look at an example. So let's say all of the money generated by Xavier Men's Basketball was kept within the program and the players shared the profits after coaches, scholarships, travel, scouting budgets, etc. That means the other 230 student athletes at Xavier would cease to exist. None of those sports could cover themselves for one day, so they'd be gone. So now instead of graduating 230 former student athletes, who by and large become far more successful adults than regular students, you graduate only 12 really wealthy basketball players. So now those 230 kids can't afford to go there, so Xavier loses them, which means you have to cut faculty and services (230 x $40,000 x 4 years is a lot). You think that model, extrapolated across 350 D-1 schools, is the right answer? At most schools football would be example, not hoops, but the net result to the school is the same -- or far worse. Again, if your suggestion was even legal, which Title IX prevents. Paying the QB, and not the libero, won't fly.

$40,000 (less at some, more at others) is nothing? You realize athletic departments pay the school for each scholarship student, right? You can't pay some kids and not others, that is a Title IX issue. Athletic Departments, almost always, don't make near enough to cover their budget already.

Title IX is holding for you on the pink courtesy phone.

The whole "pay the players" thing is such a fan-thing. Who are you paying? What sports? What schools? How are you determining how much? It is such an easy bumper-sticker ("pay the athletes, they do the work"), but it is incredibly complex when you start trying to figure it out.

...and what do you believe will sprout from its demise?