UNC's 2024-25 Full ACC Schedule Unveiled
- By andrew jones
- Four Corners
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The incredible growth of the NBA popularity globally has been a cash boon, the workers/talent get 48%. Price of poker has went up. Ante up or play the smaller tables.I think it's really hard to compare apples to apples with this.
Today, is it realistic that you can get Ed Davis and Tyler Zeller like talents to be ok with coming off the bench as freshmen? I'm not all that sure. Even the rookies that were 5* and didn't play like Isiah Hicks... I'm not sure if that's all that relatable today. Maybe playing for UNC still means that much, but I have my doubts.
The other thing that needs to be considered is the NBA rookie wage scale. In 2006, the #1 overall pick was making less than $4M/year on their rookie deal. The last pick in the 1st round was making less than $800K/year on their rookie deal.
The 2004-25 rookie NBA wage scale has the #1 pick making $11M/year and the last pick in the 1st round is making just over $2M/year. And yes, that far exceeds inflation and far exceeds the purchasing power if you convert 2006 money to 2024. There is much more value in NBA contracts today and that obviously becomes even more significant if the NBA players are able to get second longterm contracts.
It's really hard to compare Roy's days to today.
For Hubert, it will come down to a few pretty easy things. If he's a good evaluator of talent and a good developer of talent, then he will have more margin for error for the type of player he can bring in. He can be more stubborn for lack of a better word. If he isn't, then he will need to pay for more talented players.
That is so ridiculously out of touch with reality.With UNC tradition, family & just overall UNC basketball history ... we should have a top 5 class every yr period regardless of NIL or not !! We are CAROLINA
But it's about making millions to those that reap the benefits and it has been for quite a long while. If the cash is flowing in from the product the bottom line is what matters to the buisness. Chips are nice, don't get it twisted though, it's been a billion dollar industry, and that bottom line rules for them.Hey 57 I like it, and what would be wrong with contracts with conditions. Heck yeah we’ll give you 5 mil but you’d better deliver such and such. If it’s all about winning and paying them to do it, then schools should hold kids accountable too. Or just make it flat out performance based.
Want to make 8mil? Win your college a chip. Oh you got put out in the first round? Here’s a scholarship and free shoes. lol PUT THIS CRAP SHOW IN THIER LAPS.
And yet, assuming you are anywhere close to correct, you dumb asses gave us the choices of pawpaw or a person who's biggest qualifications are being a half black woman. IF Trump was really that bad and it was such a horrible future with him being elected, one would think that we'd have been given an actual, real alternative.It's viewed that way by the whole world except you inbreeds.
The dook 2015 squad led by Okafor, Jones, Winslow...Very true. And thank heavens they weren’t.
The point still remains, OAD players rarely lead teams to championships.
Off the top of my head I can only name Anthony Davis and Carmelo Anthony in the last 25 years (there may be more but that’s all I can recall)
Very true. And thank heavens they weren’t.Some of those players absolutely could have been one-and-done. I distinctly remember Hansbrough being projected in the late lottery after his freshman year.
Because playing overseas would give him a much better preparation for the NBA than playing at BYU.Why would he go overseas when he'll make $4 million+ at BYU?
Some of those players absolutely could have been one-and-done. I distinctly remember Hansbrough being projected in the late lottery after his freshman year.True. The point was not about not bidding, but rather not breaking the bank for a dybanista-type player who’d only be on campus for a year…. All the listed players were multi-year players due to their lack of immediate NBA appeal.
True. The point was not about not bidding, but rather not breaking the bank for a dybanista-type player who’d only be on campus for a year…. All the listed players were multi-year players due to their lack of immediate NBA appeal.Every one of these players: May, Felton, McCants, Hansbrough, Lawson, Ellington, Berry, Jackson, Hicks, Meeks, Bacot, RJ would command bidding wars if they were high school seniors today.
Carolina can get in the game or get left behind. It’s their choice.