Jay Bilas on the NCAA Sweet 16

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Jay Bilas of ESPN and CBS Sports with a NCAA Sweet 16 preview and analysis

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    1. SharkswithfrikingLazers  03/24/2012 03:05 AM Report

      Really, really bad system.

      Serfs of the Turf: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/11/opinion/11lewis.html?_r=1

      Mark Emmert--NCAA--responds: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/money-and-march-madness/interviews/mark-emmert.html

      His predecessor said: The one-year grant[-in-aid] was a pay contract -- it's a contract of a one-year term enforced at the national level by what essentially is a cartel, and it's time to change that. The one-year pay scheme is outdated, and there should be drastic changes in the rules. He was in charge of the NCAA for 20 years.

    2. SharkswithfrikingLazers  03/24/2012 03:02 AM Report

      In '56 they said: "Once you bring somebody here on athletic scholarship, you can't take it away from them. If they're not a good player, if they get injured, it's theirs. They get to finish school." It said that in the legislation.

      Then in 1973, they thought again. When they thought again they said: "It's really better for the coach, if the guy's not a good player, that we can get rid of the scholarship. We give it to somebody who is a good player. Or gets injured which is even more insidious. This makes it very clear now that there is a compensation for a specific skill, and that makes it look very much like a professional job.

    3. SharkswithfrikingLazers  03/24/2012 03:00 AM Report

      Using econometric or statistical techniques you try to estimate how much are these guys really producing for the school in value, in revenue, the answer you're going to come up with -- it will depend by school and by individual -- is going to be $800,000, $1 million, $2 million, $3 million. Those are the kinds of numbers that we're looking at per year.

      How much is the value of their scholarship, even assuming that they end up with a degree, and even assuming that they really do their course of studies properly? The value of the scholarship might be $30,000.

    4. SharkswithfrikingLazers  03/24/2012 02:59 AM Report

      Profound irony here that an institution of higher learning is exploiting the most exploited to subsidize other programs (and they are really bad at it--except coaches salaries, those are fantastic).

      The NCAA is a voluntary association of around 1,100 colleges and universities with something on the order of 400,000 student-athletes participating across the country in all NCAA sports.

      Division I men's basketball generates about 96 percent of the revenue that flows into and gets distributed out to the institutions through the NCAA. So it is by far the dominant revenue stream for the NCAA membership. NCAA annual revenue from all sources is somewhere around $700 or so million.

    5. SharkswithfrikingLazers  03/24/2012 02:56 AM Report

      Only 14 universities in America that actually had a positive cash flow under their athletic departments, out of the 1,100 or so that participate in NCAA sports.

      GREAT INTERVIEW:

      http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/money-and-march-madness/interviews/andrew-zimbalist.html

    6. REMant  03/22/2012 12:25 PM Report

      A few decades ago coaches like Knight developed good defenses that ended the run-and-gun style of play of the time. Then the NCAA, bless their hearts, decided to install the shot clock and the 3-point line, and immediately shooting declined, and with it any manner of what can be called a game. The US even began losing in the Olympics with "pros," and now Mr Bilas calls for even more permissiveness. A basketball primitivist! Mr Billas surely belongs on this program. He should be in Obama's White House or the Fed. And, of course, it must be the fault of the officiating.

      IU may beat UK again. They shoot 44% from behind the 3-point line, and UK has won the season largely on the basis of its defense. It is a classic match-up of different basketball strategies. A good coach would try to foul them out. And I don't think IU's ever looked for NBA players. How many of Michigan's "Fab Four" made good careers in the pros? I believe the answer is none.