Opening up one of those roster spots that would have been taken by a walk-on. Thank you for your four years, Liam!
Weaver into the portal
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Maybe I'm just getting old, but it's weird to me to see a 4 year walk-on and graduate "entering the transfer portal".
It's not just you. As soon as I saw the Kentucky kid and his girlfriend had "luxury cars" stolen from them, and then seeing Kentucky players advertising TurboTax in a commercial, I realized that college sports as we knew it is dead. There's still bits and pieces of the days of old but they're usually in the lower levels of the sport.
I think at this point the portal is just the "vehicle" in essence if he wants to attempt to play anywhere else his final grad year. Hope Liam ends up getting some minutes for some lower end D1 school ...
Does seem odd but maybe same thinking as Oddo to Louisville having desire to get into coaching? Weaver time here was like learning at a community college.
Historians are going to look back at this time and be absolutely amazed that this multi-billion dollar college sports industry had relatively free labor for as long as it did.
Except for the hundreds of thousands of dollars spent on the schools for free education.
I hold both of these stances:
Im all for students being able to make money just like anyone else is able to. Just because they are athletes shouldn't mean they can't capitalize on their talents.
AND
Nobody was forcing these pre-NIL students to play for free. They knew what they were signing up for.
the ncaa had rules in place to forbid any payments to players. heck, if the team bus got back late and the cafeteria was closed, a booster couldn't buy a pizza for the team without the school being charged with providing improper benefits.
I may have the legal term wrong, but it's basically collusion ... making a rule for all the schools that nobody can pay players, so all the schools benefit.
players are now getting paid what they're "worth".
you can certainly feel they aren't worth the money they get, but the market decides that. nobody forced Duke to pay Cooper Flagg $5M or whatever he's getting. but to them he's worth it.
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I may have missed this, but is there an active market for players like Liam? Walkons who barely played feel like a low demand profile but perhaps I’m missing something.
He might be able to find a home at a D-II or D-III school if he can find a good fit. But he has to enter the portal to find out.
4 or 5 years all expenses paid at UR is a great deal. I guess $ on top of that is even better. Wish my kid a very high academic achiever would have had free years at UR.
Try millions a year. At Richmond 63 football players x 60,000 per year = 3.78M per year + 15 men's BB players = 4.8M per year in free education.
Now these schools just cheat in the open.
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