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What do you think about this new prep league, where players will be required to forfeit their college eligibility if they want to participate and receive guaranteed salaries?

How will this new school/league impact colleges in their quest to attract the top recruits? Seems to me colleges and universities and their decades of taking advantage of elite student athletes may be the primary target for Prep Elite. Thoughts?

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How many jumped to the G League? Neither pay as much as going to Kansas, Kentucky, or Duke I'm guessing. Plus, you lose the opportunity to earn a lottery pick's contract before you are seen as a fraud.
 
How many jumped to the G League? Neither pay as much as going to Kansas, Kentucky, or Duke I'm guessing. Plus, you lose the opportunity to earn a lottery pick's contract before you are seen as a fraud.

True, except Overtime Elite is for 16, 17 and 18 years old kids. It will almost certainly take attendees from the prep schools. Colleges will only be affected by the 30 or so who sign with OE and thereby forfeit their college eligibility.
 
How many jumped to the G League? Neither pay as much as going to Kansas, Kentucky, or Duke I'm guessing. Plus, you lose the opportunity to earn a lottery pick's contract before you are seen as a fraud.

the g leage high school kids make 6 figures and then make endorsements ..

so more than going to any college ..
 
Some college kids get paid 6 figures to play ball.

Zion Williamson has entered the chat.

But seriously, the bottom line is all of these ways to get amateur athletes paid, legally, be it the G League, Overtime Elite, NIL, or whatever, only impact a few athletes. The fear and dread about how each change will destroy college athletics that comes along with the proposed change or rule is more of a story than the impact itself.
 
I just don’t think something like this is financially viable in the long term. Just like every new football start up, it sounds like a great idea. You get a lot of buy in and money to get it started, you run it for a couple of years and then in shuts down because everyone is tired of losing money.
 
I just don’t think something like this is financially viable in the long term. Just like every new football start up, it sounds like a great idea. You get a lot of buy in and money to get it started, you run it for a couple of years and then in shuts down because everyone is tired of losing money.

Yes I don’t see a lot of people tuning into tat league.
 
I just don’t think something like this is financially viable in the long term. Just like every new football start up, it sounds like a great idea. You get a lot of buy in and money to get it started, you run it for a couple of years and then in shuts down because everyone is tired of losing money.

Agreed. Who is going to pay to see those games? No one cares about those players besides their families, agents, and scouts. The reason why college and pro sports are successful is because the fans cheer for the teams, even though the faces change every year. No one goes to g league games or minor league baseball games either.
 
Having said that, I would rather see this league survive. I’m tired of the bagmen schools having such a ridiculous advantage. Those kids can just head onto the pros now. Downside is the bagmen schools will dip more into the pool Of players that ou typically recruits.
 
The fame of college trumps the hundred thousand dollars. Anybody halfway decent would be much better served to get famous in college.
 
The fame of college trumps the hundred thousand dollars. Anybody halfway decent would be much better served to get famous in college.

i think this is changing and changing quickly ..

2 of the likely top 5 picks in the nba draft this summer will be kids that skipped college for the Gleague .. and this is just starting ..
 
This doesn't really bother me. If all of the 'elite' players opted for the NBA or the G league or whatever, I would still like college basketball better than the NBA. There are kids who would give their right you know what to get a college scholarship. Give me a team of those guys any day of the week.
 
i think this is changing and changing quickly ..

2 of the likely top 5 picks in the nba draft this summer will be kids that skipped college for the Gleague .. and this is just starting ..

I agree with you. Kids who grew up in poverty without so much as a decent bed to sleep in and at least one good meal every day, couldn’t care less about a college education and the fame of playing for a major university. The promise of more money than they have ever dreamed of and the guarantee of better days ahead with all of the perks being offered by Overtime Elite and the Gleague will be hard for some of these kids to turn down.

The days of the NCAA and the schools it represents earning tons of money by showcasing student athletes for the price of an education may be coming to an end.
 
I agree with you. Kids who grew up in poverty without so much as a decent bed to sleep in and at least one good meal every day, couldn’t care less about a college education and the fame of playing for a major university. The promise of more money than they have ever dreamed of and the guarantee of better days ahead with all of the perks being offered by Overtime Elite and the Gleague will be hard for some of these kids to turn down.

The days of the NCAA and the schools it represents earning tons of money by showcasing student athletes for the price of an education may be coming to an end.

I get that they’ll get some kids, & don’t blame the kids at all. I just don’t think Overtime Elite will lose so much $$$ because no one will watch it. It’s good AAU basketball, which is terrible to watch.
 
I have no problem with the new league but it won't stop the bagmen.

They just won't be spending on the Top 10 players, it'll be 11-20, etc. The best players available will still have illegal offers from boosters, etc. because they want to win for their school.

It's the same argument that legally paying players will stop cheating, it won't. The playing field will never be level for teams that play by the rules. I'm not saying that's a reason not to pay players a stipend but it won't stop cheating.
 
I get that they’ll get some kids, & don’t blame the kids at all. I just don’t think Overtime Elite will lose so much $$$ because no one will watch it. It’s good AAU basketball, which is terrible to watch.
I agree, AAU is like the NBA its about me basketball...College game is heading that way too...IMO
 
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