Georges Niang returning for senior season

OUHoops · Mar 30, 2015

'I don't want to go out like that', he says.

BCSooners · Mar 30, 2015

He is suited much more for the college game.

chuckb · Mar 30, 2015

"I want 1 more chance to try to make it to the NBA."

SoonerBounce13 · Mar 30, 2015

chuckb said:
"I want 1 more chance to try to make it to the NBA."

lol nice

Eielson · Mar 30, 2015

chuckb said:
"I want 1 more chance to try to make it to the NBA."

Exactly. This is not even newsworthy.

schoonerdriver · Mar 30, 2015

Was he considering joining the WNBA?

sperry · Mar 31, 2015

Not sure why people are so fired up that it's better to play for free in college than to get paid somewhere. He is what he is for the NBA, and he'll have a long career in Europe if he wants one.

bgrch1350 · Mar 31, 2015

sperry said:
Not sure why people are so fired up that it's better to play for free in college than to get paid somewhere. He is what he is for the NBA, and he'll have a long career in Europe if he wants one.

From someone who paid his way through college and worked as well, your statement is wrong. Not one college kid is playing for free.

sperry · Mar 31, 2015

bgrch1350 said:
From someone who paid his way through college and worked as well, your statement is wrong. Not one college kid is playing for free.

Not going to respond to this argument right now. If you want to call it playing for a small fraction of their market value, than whatever.

BoulderSooner · Mar 31, 2015

sperry said:
Not going to respond to this argument right now. If you want to call it playing for a small fraction of their market value, than whatever.

most college basketball teams lose money .. so ...

DenverSooner · Mar 31, 2015

Funny thing about pro college pay people is they seem to support collective bargaining for athletes. The college players essentially have a collective bargaining system. The stars get less than they are worth in terms of tuition, coaching, meals, boarding, training, medical, books etc. and guys like Cole and Bennett probably get more than they are worth. Guys on teams in smaller conferences get way more.

sperry · Mar 31, 2015

BoulderSooner said:
most college basketball teams lose money .. so ...

Not talking about the 4th guy off the bench for Cal State-Riverside. I'm talking about guys that could be collecting big paychecks right now playing professionally.

And I'm really not interested in the argument of whether college players should be paid, because its irrelevant. I'm talking about should guys who can earn good money playing go earn that money.

Eielson · Mar 31, 2015

bgrch1350 said:
From someone who paid his way through college and worked as well, your statement is wrong. Not one college kid is playing for free.

True...but they're working for about minimum wage.

BoulderSooner · Mar 31, 2015

Eielson said:
True...but they're working for about minimum wage.

out of state tutuion board all the meals you want and highquality coaching/training ...

not close to min wage

bgrch1350 · Mar 31, 2015

Eielson said:
True...but they're working for about minimum wage.

You need to calculate room and board, out/in state tuition, meals, tutors, books, supplements, trainers, gym passes, clothes, shoes for 4 years.

Most college students working for minimum wage don't leave college debt free.

WTSooner · Mar 31, 2015

sperry said:
Not talking about the 4th guy off the bench for Cal State-Riverside. I'm talking about guys that could be collecting big paychecks right now playing professionally.

And I'm really not interested in the argument of whether college players should be paid, because its irrelevant. I'm talking about should guys who can earn good money playing go earn that money.

If they want to be playing for money there are plenty of places to play overseas. It's not college basketball's fault that "another" professional feeder basketball league doesn't exist in the USA.

sperry · Apr 1, 2015

WTSooner said:
If they want to be playing for money there are plenty of places to play overseas. It's not college basketball's fault that "another" professional feeder basketball league doesn't exist in the USA.

That's exactly what I just said. If he wants to get paid he should leave.

bgrch1350 · Apr 1, 2015

sperry said:
That's exactly what I just said. If he wants to get paid he should leave.

That is not what you said.

Eielson · Apr 1, 2015

bgrch1350 said:
You need to calculate room and board, out/in state tuition, meals, tutors, books, supplements, trainers, gym passes, clothes, shoes for 4 years.

I think it's silly to factor in out of state tuition unless it's a school like Duke, which is actually a high-quality school. For a school like ISU...

Unless you start throwing in insane out of state tuition numbers, it's going to be fairly close to minimum wage. For guys like Blake, the "education" he was receiving was of no value, and it was really only adding to his "work" hours.

bgrch1350 · Apr 2, 2015

Eielson said:
I think it's silly to factor in out of state tuition unless it's a school like Duke, which is actually a high-quality school. For a school like ISU...

Unless you start throwing in insane out of state tuition numbers, it's going to be fairly close to minimum wage. For guys like Blake, the "education" he was receiving was of no value, and it was really only adding to his "work" hours.

Who are you to say the education he was receiving was of no value. You have no idea of what the future holds for Blake. Durant either got his college degree or is close but that has no value right? so fill free to elaborate if you have actual facts

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