BREAKING: Jason Edwards to enter transfer portal

Cooley · March 28

It's the wild wild west out here! Kids are doing what coaches do and even at the high school level

https://www.dallasnews.com/high-school-sports/basketball/2024/03/27/four-time-state-champion-andrea-robinson-is-leaving-desoto-to-coach-at-faith-family/

NorthTexasWeLove · March 28

5 minutes ago, Cooley said:

It's the wild wild west out here! Kids are doing what coaches do and even at the high school level

https://www.dallasnews.com/high-school-sports/basketball/2024/03/27/four-time-state-champion-andrea-robinson-is-leaving-desoto-to-coach-at-faith-family/

Wait until school choice inevitably gets passed one day.

MeanGreenZen · March 28

What we have right now is a game without rules. Games without rules are not fun. All of this player movement is bad for the game. College sports need fans. It is hard for fans to get emotionally invested in these teams when your favorite player ditches your favorite team to go play for someone else over and over again. Will be interesting to see how this shakes out: whether the NCAA can get an anti-trust exemption and put things back similar to how they were before or if the student-athletes get made employees who bargain collectively. And how is all of this going to impact the non-revenue sports? What a mess.

BleedingGreen · March 28

There is a Twitter post that says he is going to Memphis. If that’s true , I am not mad anymore. This is going to be fun!

Wag Tag · March 28

4 hours ago, UNTLifer said:

What trend is that? Is one person a trend? Are you insinuating that there will be more to follow soon?

Look who lost last year to KSU. The trend you have a player that has a strong year he will be gone. We will be the scouting combine for the P5’s.

NT80 · March 28

2 hours ago, MeanGreenZen said:

What we have right now is a game without rules. Games without rules are not fun. All of this player movement is bad for the game. College sports need fans. It is hard for fans to get emotionally invested in these teams when your favorite player ditches your favorite team to go play for someone else over and over again. Will be interesting to see how this shakes out: whether the NCAA can get an anti-trust exemption and put things back similar to how they were before or if the student-athletes get made employees who bargain collectively. And how is all of this going to impact the non-revenue sports? What a mess.

Agree. It's like trying to herd cats now!

wardly · March 28

4 hours ago, NT80 said:

That works. Toss out their free education, books, meals, dorm and medical and let them pay for it with their NIL, like real employees have to.

Well the university would need to pay them like employees , which would entitle them to employee benefits. The NIL has nothing to do with it. Their remuneration could be is the form of a salary or additional benefits such as tuition, meals,and housing,which would be assigned a monetary value. They also would be entitled to Workman's Compensation so if they were injured they could file a claim. This new world is a real can of worms but eventually will work itself out although we might not like the ending.

NT80 · March 28

11 minutes ago, wardly said:

Well the university would need to pay them like employees , which would entitle them to employee benefits. The NIL has nothing to do with it. Their remuneration could be is the form of a salary or additional benefits such as tuition, meals,and housing,which would be assigned a monetary value. They also would be entitled to Workman's Compensation so if they were injured they could file a claim. This new world is a real can of worms but eventually will work itself out although we might not like the ending.

That is the way it is headed, with some college athletes already granted the right to unionize. There is push also to have any athletic NIL distribution be handled by a player's school, vs third-party donor group. I imagine any formal "employee" designation will lead to having a value attached to any education expenses, to make it part of a compensation package.

MeanGreenZen · March 28

Then their scholarships should get taxed. Let’s see how much they like paying taxes on that SMU education vs. taxes on a UNT education.

BigWillie · March 29

You know it's the off season when a portal transfer thread dissolves into a NIL discussion.

Big Z · March 29

1 hour ago, BigWillie said:

You know it's the off season when a portal transfer thread dissolves into a NIL discussion.

Bro you are on the FC Dallas and Arlington Renegades train right now!

Edited March 29 by Big Z

Matt from A700 · March 29

This thread really snowballed before I could comment, but I wish Jason the best. But I'm not surprised. Let's see which Kansas JUCO superstar comes to North Texas next....

Cougar King · March 29

19 hours ago, NT80 said:

A$M took it to overtime against your "walk-ons" and nearly sent you home!

Nearly sending us home is still a loss.

NT80 · March 29

3 hours ago, Cougar King said:

Nearly sending us home is still a loss.

You're about to get "Duked" tonight!

UNTLifer · March 29

19 hours ago, Wag Tag said:

Look who lost last year to KSU. The trend you have a player that has a strong year he will be gone. We will be the scouting combine for the P5’s.

I was just trying to clarify what trend you were referencing. The one above, or the potential start of a trend of players from our current roster entering the portal. Thanks for clearing that up.

NT80 · March 30

17 hours ago, Cougar King said:

Nearly sending us home is still a loss.

Well... ...Bye (captions) | Captionless Memes | Know Your Meme | Movies, Movie lines, Bye meme

Cougar King · March 30

12 minutes ago, NT80 said:

Our All-American, Player of the Year, soon to be NBA draft pick Point Guard got injured while we were winning our Sweet 16 game.

Youre talking smack about things people that several of you knew that DIED without ever seeing anything remotely close at UNT despite being fans for decades. Instead of going back and forth with you, it's easier to call you stupid.

Edited March 30 by Cougar King

NT80 · March 30

13 minutes ago, Cougar King said:

Our All-American, Player of the Year, soon to be NBA draft pick Point Guard got injured while we were winning our Sweet 16 game.

Cougar King · March 30

Just now, NT80 said:

And for UNT basketball, March hasn't happened in almost a decade.

CMJ · March 30

I sorta feel bad for Houston given the injury. However, Tennessee was missing one of their best players tonight and still beat a Creighton team that I expected to beat a fully healthy UT squad.