Unverified Voracity Wants To Recruit Mutumbo
A fundraiser. Michigan hockey alumnus Scott Matzka passed away from ALS this year. His teammates have a gofundme up to help defray educational expenses for his kids:
Could you hurry up with those maybe? The NCAA is set to act in some capacity against six as-yet-unnamed basketball programs swept up in the FBI probe:
ORLANDO, Fla. -- At least six Division I men's basketball programs will receive notices of allegations for Level I violations from the NCAA by the summer, stemming from the federal government's recently completed investigation of the sport, a top NCAA official told CBS Sports.
Stan Wilcox, NCAA vice president for regulatory affairs, said two high-profile programs would receive notices of allegations by early July.
LSU, Arizona, Kansas, and Louisville are almost certainly four of the six.
This is a bifurcation point for the NCAA. Anything short of crippling penalties for programs that are either already on probation, like Louisville, or had head coaches directly participating in buying players, like LSU and Arizona, and there are no rules worth following. Single-season post-season bans aren't going to cut it.
[After THE JUMP: Mutumbo! Oars!]
Contracts could solve this. A lot of college basketball players are bolting for uncertain futures, which hurts the sport. Matt Norlander does a good job of threading the needle here:
…college basketball's true immediate-and-long-term problem came into view Thursday morning when the list of players who opted to stay in the 2019 NBA Draft pool crystallized. A generous forecast of this year's draft allots 45 of the 60 picks to go to underclassmen from American universities. Yet nearly double that amount are keeping their names in and will never play for a school again.
These aren't all misguided souls. They have the right to make the decisions they feel are best for them for whatever reasons (money atop the list for most, surely) drive them to do so. They're players who have spent a year or two or even three in college and are just done with it. The unforgiving world can get aggressively real once you leave college behind for good, and a big batch of these men are about to discover that exciting but harsh reality. Many are going to look up six months from now and find themselves a universe away from the glamour of high-level D-I ball, caught in the schlep, staying in average hotels and playing in front of less than a thousand people in G League games almost nobody will care about.
Would this be the case if the NCAA enacted Name, Image and Likeness (NIL) rules that allowed college players to make money off their own NIL? Probably not. If you told a college sophomore with almost no chance of being drafted that he could chase a two-way NBA deal, or return to college and potentially make $20,000 off his NIL because he was the BMOC, don't you think the latter option would entice just a few more players to head back to school? The players should already be afforded the opportunity to get this money anyway. Now that college basketball's collective crop of talent is becoming thinner by the year, maybe the NCAA will finally find a way to allow it to happen.
Getting some money to prospects would probably induce a number of them to stick around. If Poole or Brazdeikis knew his NIL rights would net him mid-six-digits the case for staying gets a lot stronger.
Not that Mutumbo. Michigan recently hosted 2021 C Bretner Mutumbo, and I know what you're thinking but he's not related to Dikembe. Or so he says, anyway:
How can that guy not be related to Dikembe Mutumbo?
Anyway, it seems like Michigan is sticking with some aspects of Beilein's recruiting approach:
"They told him they’re going to be all over him. That they want to be the first call on June 15 and they just want Juwan to give the offer but he’s someone they’re offering and want in their class," said Mutombo's guardian.
Howard's offered some guys before the campus visit that was mandatory for Beilein, but that sounds like they'll be sticking with the June 15th date to offer rising juniors.
The Society Les Voyageurs. Ann Arbor has a river! It is used.
All challenges please. Hockey goals should not be reviewed for offsides. Offsides shouldn't exist in hockey at all, but since no one is likely to see sense in the near future, let's at least stop reviewing to see if someone was six inches offside 20 seconds before a goal.
Sense will not be seen here either, but at least things won't be as goofy as they were last year:
The NCAA Men’s and Women’s Ice Hockey Rules Committee proposed that all video reviews for offsides or too many players on the ice infractions leading to a goal in the regular season be reviewed by coach’s challenges only: https://t.co/iegup8546Q pic.twitter.com/ZEBeeb6p2T
— NCAA Ice Hockey (@NCAAIceHockey) June 6, 2019
I'm coming around to the position that almost all reviews should be coach's challenges. The NFL's review system seems like the best one in sports currently.
Etc.: FSU moving their athletic department to a "DSO" will exempt them from most FOIA. Baseball draft recap. Perry Watson on Howard Eisley. Match Quarters does a deep dive on one of Don Brown's calls. Athlon has Patterson the #7 QB in the country. They also pick Michigan to win the conference. Bama's renovation is getting rid of seats.
There is no Dikembe Mutumbo
There could be. You don't know everyone.
Mutumbo Mutombo - Let's call the whole thing off!
Neurodegenerative diseases are terrible and ALS is probably the worst. Terrible for the victim and the family as they watch their loved one go through the disease process. Here’s to finding a cure for ALS, Parkinson’s, MS, Hutchinson’s, and all of the other terrible neurodegenerative conditions people suffer from.
I have MS, and luckily it's a disease that has essentially been cured at this point through various treatments.
People who have had it so long that there is accumulated disability unfortunately seem out of luck. But as long as a person has access to current treatments(and chooses to treat aggressively), I would be surprised if anyone being diagnosed nowadays ever suffers horribly from it.
Seems like there is some variation in how bad the disease affects certain people. My uncle has ALS and I have a friend with MS. Neither are fatal, but both have significant health problems and have had multiple surgeries including brain surgery and multiple hip replacements.
ALS is terrible, I watched my grandmother die with it, but epidermolysis bullosa is worse. I buried my 8-year-old son in 2017 after watching his skin slowly erode and not grow back over years. If you are unfamiliar with the disease all I can say is that the third episode of Chernobyl was more nostalgic than shocking for me.
Limit reviews to 30 or 60 seconds. If it's obviously the "wrong" call, you'll see it right away and overturn. If it's not obvious, go with what was called on the field and get back to the game. If it takes 6000 freeze-frames and a Zapruder analysis over the course of 5 minutes, who cares? Close call, go with the ref, and get on with it.
The NFL's coach-decision review is good, but they are the absolute worst at over-analysis. Takes them 5 minutes sometimes to make a decision. If you can't make a definitive call after 60 seconds and looks from three different angles, play it as it was called. They embarrass themselves with how seriously they mull this stuff. It's just a fucking football game!
Limit it to playing it at no slower than half speed and only one look per angle.
For the casual fan, it's just a game. For the teams, players, owners, etc., it could mean the difference between receiving bonuses, wins, playoff spots, hundreds of thousands (if not millions) of dollars in exposure, sales, etc. There can be a butterfly effect to such calls when you are looking at it from a business standpoint and not a "make big men hit each other again faster" standpoint.
I'm all for speeding up lengthy reviews, but I also get that if I were on the other side of the perspective, I might not mind taking an extra minute or two to make sure calls are accurate, even if that means the average Joe at home has to go back to contemplating his own existence for a couple moments.
Who wants to sex and/or correctly spell Mutombo?
I don't care how good he is as a basketball player I will not sex him.
We are not Louisville
Not in my house.
I hate instant replay period.
If they got things right it would be different. But they don't.
If they were so bad they missed something on the field they should be suspended and docked.
Instant replay has ruined baseball, college basketball college football and I could go on.
It has made the way refs officiate games and that wasn't the intent but it was the result.
In baseball they watch your hand on the base and if it comes off for a nano second you're out. Again, changed the entire game with that call.
Even if it helps my team win a game I hate it hate it hate it.
In baseball they watch your hand on the base and if it comes off for a nano second you're out.
...and yet, for some undoubtedly idiotic reason, baseball refuses to automate the strikezone.
Yup. I'm fully with you.
The replay in baseball is moronic. UCLA's coach was just blindly challenging scoring plays without a shred of reason. He challenged a sac fly tag-up where the Michigan runner wasn't even close to leaving early. It was irritating, but I don't blame him. Why not?! He didn't get penalized for being wrong. Take a shot in the dark!
The whole operation has jumped the shark. Ban review in all sports, accept imprefection and get on with it.
No sport has worse replay than College Basketball. Most of the calls are soooo close even the replay doesn't help. I'd be fine to get rid of replay on everything maybe end of game clock calls.
I'm here for the replay negbang.
The best replay in sports is the National Rugby League in Australia. They have a subset of things they can review. There is a centralized review team for the league. The review generally takes less than 30 seconds, and almost never more than a minute.
But the best part is that the television broadcast sees the exact same replay they're looking at in the booth, and the review official tells you what he's looking at or looking for. Then tells you the decision in real time. It's not some black box process that goes on for 5 minutes while broadcasters try to fill time. In my time living in Australia, this was the thing I most wanted to bring back to the US.
If Louisville basketball does not get the death penalty something is seriously wrong with the system..
You can add LSU to that list.
Wasn't there a brief snippet of FBI and MSU and dwayne stephens about six months ago ? Maybe MSU is one of the six.
Unlikely based on this specific case. The guy who this whole case is around said MSU wouldn't pay.
That doesn't mean MSU or other schools absolutely aren't paying, but with this specific guy, he said they wouldnt.
Nothing will happen at MSU
That or at least something close to the death penalty. I'm thinking 4 years of post-season bans with some other minor punishments would be sufficient. That would set a school back for at least the length of the ban plus a few more years to recover.
The problem is always that if a coach is gone (quits, fired, ...assassinated) then the school just claims that the issue is fixed and they didn't know anything about it.
I doubt the NCAA will ever use the Death Penalty again. They didn’t give it to Ped State, they aren’t going to give it to anyone else.
You can give players all the NIL rights you want. This won’t and shouldn’t change a players decision to go to the NBA. If you’re good enough to make a lot of money from your NIL, you’re probably good enough to go to the NBA and will make way more money in the league anyway.
If you’re a poor draft prospect, you should be staying in school, to you know, get educated and prepare for your future without athletics. They will be worth a lot more to themselves and their families if they get their degree rather than getting spit out the bottom of the g-league.
Just for the record I’m ok with giving them NIL rights. I just think the answer to keeping poor prospects out of the draft is educating them on how to invest in their future if pro sports is an unlikely option. These kids just have too many people in their corners who are giving them terrible guidance.
The "people in their corners," and perhaps the players themselves, may want the bird in the hand now over the potential two in the bush that is finishing their education and investing in their future.
I don't know enough about the situations of various players at other schools who stay in the draft even after learning they're going after pick 50 or not at all, but the Michigan players who chose that may indeed have stayed with that NIL $ as a revenue stream.
Who is going to "educate them" that they should focus on school and not pro dreams? The coach? Their family? Minister?
Everybody except for the people getting rich off of the student athletes is ok with NIL (I'm talking about you Jim Delaney)
One small concern I have with NIL is that the Bama or Kentucky or whoever bagman willl just go "here's $20,000 for me to put your name on the back of my t-Shirt", but that's happening under the table anyway and UM has alot more $$$ than everyone else, so have at it.
There are many student athletes that can't or don't want to earn a degree nor do they want a career outside of basketball. As small as the chance is they want to play professionally even if they aren't immediately drafted into the NBA. There are those with terrible draft prospects who bounce around the G-League or overseas and eventually have a successful career in the NBA or overseas. My player on 2K spent time in China and now starts 8n the NBA...
This is a good point, but you'll also have boosters paying students tens of thousands "for their autograph" and that might encourage them to stay.
Jalen Wilson is undoubtedly hoping Kansas is clean.
Why? What's the NCAA gonna do to Kansas?
I would think that all these athletes know who is clean and who isn't. Could this become another Ole Miss? Sure. But besides the athletes and employees, would anyone be really inconvenienced if Kansas is zapped?
Did anybody else have to google "bifurcation" ?
nope
^ verified unvoracity
I mean 90% of us are lawyers, so....
I learned that word in 9th grade biology when we dissected a clam and I learned that it had a bifurcated valve...
It seems like Jalen Wilson would delay his decision for Kansas pending the outcome of the NCAA investigation.
Come on back Jalen...... Wanna hear about the last time we had a Jalen and a Juwan in the locker room at the same time?
We lost to Arkansas?
That wasn’t fun....
;-p
I doubt you would see penalties for this season, because it will be too close to the season and an appeal can put off penalties for another season. I bet he never sees the blowback on this.
You would think, but he's a high schooler who was probably hand fed lie after lie from Kansas by Bill Self
Why abandon 1 archaic recruiting principle and cling on to another? Makes no sense.
"A lot of college basketball players are bolting for uncertain futures, which hurts the sport."
I maintain that this helps. More the merrier. Goodbye. If everybody who values any basketball contract of any amount whatsoever over a college degree leaves the college game, we'll be better off for it. The college talent pool will take a barely discernible hit. The result will be a far more stable college landscape of players there by choice, not by requirement.
What is killing college basketball is that there is so little continuity within the rosters of the top programs. As soon as we get to know and like a player, they are gone. Then you're back with bags of cash trying to lure the next one-and-done. It's no way to run a sport. The only thing that has kept it going at all is that people (like us) are passionate to the point of being irrational about their school. The only thing that saves college football from a similar fate is that the kids just aren't physically capable of going pro at 18 or 19.
I agree. And the upper crust of the talent pool is (generally) only after money. They feel they are NBA players and they should be paid and school is a one-year necessary evil to move through the system. I can't disagree with that mindset one bit. If you want to go be a pro basketball player at 17 years old and somebody will pay you, go do that.
If all of college basketball unionized and locked out tomorrow, there'd be about 1,500 Michigan students at Crisler tomorrow trying out for the vacant scholarships. Those scholarships have real value to actual college students who are supposed to be the ones playing these games in the first place.
Do you want to be a pro? Do you want to get paid to play sports? Does school suck the life out of you? Then GO! Why would any of us want these kids to enroll at a university? Why are we constantly talking about sweetening the college pot to lure in young men that do not want to be a college student? It makes no sense. Let them be a peacock and fly. What would be left over is exactly what we want college sports to be.
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