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Jaquan Johnson in the portal

I do genuinely believe that Quan thinks he has a chance to go pro, and I don’t think that’s misguided necessarily - but the only way he’s 5-10x-ing his $ is by taking $750k to ride the bench at a p5. How will that increase his draft stock? Hes going to regret this in 10+ years when he has a legacy that is pulled in all different directions across the country and nowhere to truly call home. This version of college hoops absolutely sucks, Hickman’s article should be required reading when you put your name in the portal
 
Could some of these players leaving mean BU has tightened the purse strings? The NIL has been put in the hands of Bradley university instead dedicated fans. I have been worrying about that affect on the men's basketball team.
 
BUBraves2006 said:
Duke only played 3 years
Malevy - 3 years
Christian Davis - 3 years
Mast - 3 years
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I agree with your comments. And if you take away the covid year, Duke, Malevy, and Christian would have been two year players.

I recall a lot of doom and gloom on this board after last season. Things turned turned out pretty good this year.

I’m not the expert most are on this board, but I think if we find a couple decent junior college transfers and a break out year from one or more of our fresh/sophomore players and we have another good year.

Also keep in mind, for the most part we had an entirely new coaching staff this year. Getting that first year out of the way should make a difference.
 
LukeBob said:
I do genuinely believe that Quan thinks he has a chance to go pro, and I don’t think that’s misguided necessarily - but the only way he’s 5-10x-ing his $ is by taking $750k to ride the bench at a p5. How will that increase his draft stock? Hes going to regret this in 10+ years when he has a legacy that is pulled in all different directions across the country and nowhere to truly call home. This version of college hoops absolutely sucks, Hickman’s article should be required reading when you put your name in the portal
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Bully will get paid around $1M (or more) total for his final two seasons of college ball. If he invests most of that he will have $2M by age 30, $4M by age 40, and $8M by age 50. I don't think any one of us would NOT encourage our kid to take the money like Bully's doing. I wish him well.
 
Braves4Life said:
Bully will get paid around $1M (or more) total for his final two seasons of college ball. If he invests most of that he will have $2M by age 30, $4M by age 40, and $8M by age 50. I don't think any one of us would NOT encourage our kid to take the money like Bully's doing. I wish him well.
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There’s a whole lotta ‘if’s’ in and around those numbers, but I generally agree with the sentiment that it’s a smart wealth-building decision. However, I am not his parent, but a college hoops fan who has been forced into now being a professional hoops fan. Specifically, a fan of a school whose most promising underclassman in years decided to forego leaving a legacy in favor of chasing the bag. That can’t be forgotten. I loved watching Bully play this year, but I will forever push back on anyone who tries to ascribe “BU legend” status to him in the future.
 
Braves4Life said:
Bully will get paid around $1M (or more) total for his final two seasons of college ball. If he invests most of that he will have $2M by age 30, $4M by age 40, and $8M by age 50. I don't think any one of us would NOT encourage our kid to take the money like Bully's doing. I wish him well.
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Don't hate the player, hate the game. I don't blame him for chasing the money. You have to remember most of these players don't have much in the way of money, and this is likely more than they will ever earn for the rest of their lives.

I think we can all hate what college basketball has become though. Player's NIL "salaries" are now part of the game and everyone is on basically a one year contact. Sucks but that is what the courts have decided.
 
Can't hate the kid for trying to get paid, they players aren't the problem it's the system. without a doubt we need to target players that have been successful at the division 1 level. I'll continue to question Wardles decison to not give Dietrich any real playing time, #1 recruit in Illinois and rode the bench so the two players ahead of him could transfer. Quite frankly I hope we can get bigger and more athletic after a season of poor defense and bad rebounding
 
I'm Heartbroken we are losing our BULLY! However, I understand what's happening in College Basketball! I'll always wonder if Bradley could have come up with the money to pay Bully.I cannot believe we don't have wealthy dedicated Alumi who would contribute knowing Bradley has a storied Basketball tradition. I guess at Bradley, it's not win at all costs.Im fairly positive Coach Wardle will put a competitive team together at least in regards for a mid- Major in the Valley. We still have some decent players coming back hopefully like Timo, and we have some like Gus G. At center and highly recruited Zobrist and Richardson will now get there chance! However, if we lose everybody, Coach Wardle will just have to do his best recruiting/ evaluating talent to bring in.The Question now becomes will we be just an also ran like Evansville who still have loyal fans like Bradley does or do we assemble a really nice team that blossoms as the season goes on and one Bradley fans can be excited over!? Time will Tell.
 
BUBraves2006 said:
One addendum. Wardle just tweeted about the guys going out. That should, barring some shock, mean that everyone else is back. Otherwise, why does he send this now?

https://twitter.com/x/status/2037604435761766603
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Well if this is it, then I am not terribly disappointed. Of course we all HATE that Bully is leaving us, and I don't really see any of the guys who left having it BETTER elsewhere. Heading into Arch Madness I thought there was a 30% chance of keeping Bully, but his sub-par performance raised my hopes to about 60%.

We would still have Timo, Jackson, Gustavo, D-Rich, and Zo...a very good, young group to work with, along with all the newcomers.
The big thing is can the staff keep these guys, and I don't know what they can do with this being the norm.
And maybe this is premature, but major props to Jackson Seastrunk if he stays, though he is smart for staying because what other better options are there after sitting out a year and learning the system? Maybe he is a tough-minded kid and feels a strong connection with the guys. Maybe he sees the program doing special things!

PLEASE let this be the end of the list! I would be OK as I had a gut feeling about Wheeler, Burch, and Jaquan. Kai Yu could have had a nice couple yrs for us - oh well.
 
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The hardest pill to swallow is that 3 of our best 4 guys with eligiblity are gone...this is the trend and it's hard to retain the great talent with $$ and prestige on the other side of the hill (with less playing time in the rear-view mirror). Best case is we get 5 guys who average a shade over 10 ppg - no superstars, with some production from 3-4 other guys. Be prepared for any 1st or 2nd team player to jump ship going fw, unless it's an upperclassman who values legacy and loyalty, ala Duke and Darius.
 
gobraves1 said:
Can't hate the kid for trying to get paid, they players aren't the problem it's the system. without a doubt we need to target players that have been successful at the division 1 level. I'll continue to question Wardles decison to not give Dietrich any real playing time, #1 recruit in Illinois and rode the bench so the two players ahead of him could transfer. Quite frankly I hope we can get bigger and more athletic after a season of poor defense and bad rebounding
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Regardless of the situation, you don't give players time, they have to earn it. Clearly through the course of the year he started to.
 
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BUBraves2006 said:
It's not my intention to sound rude, but I think some of you guys ought to just log off for awhile and decompress. I mean, seriously, never have a four year player again?

We literally last season graduated:
Darius Hannah (played all 5 years at BU)
Connor Linke (5 years at BU)

I'd also put Meta in the category from this season because while he came in mid season, he played all 3 1/2 seasons of his full career at BU.

I find this stuff frustrating, too, but I'd recommend just taking a deep breath. Like, some of everyone's favorite players in the past half decade weren't four year players.

Duke only played 3 years
Malevy - 3 years
Christian Davis - 3 years
Mast - 3 years

Do you truly look back at any of those three guys and go, man, I liked him, but man, he was only here three years, that's just not enough and it wrecks my opinion of him?

You can have legendary status at BU (or be remembered really positively) without being some 4-year freshman who is grown and we find some way to make them stay the whole way.

I am not trying to convince any of you to not be upset, but just know that anyone who leaves turned their back on BU and the next Duke/Darius could be right around the corner. I mean, those guys absolutely could have left but they were class and stayed the whole way. Do we have such short memories to forget them from literally just one season ago?

Things will start feeling better when the roster starts filling up again.
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Connor 😂😂😂😂😂
 
They can take the money and run fine but you will never have a jersey retirement at that school. This has to change it’s harder and harder to be a fan of mid major basketball. Remember when everyone was to hard on these kids 😂 Now we should be booing and asking for our money back for lack of performance right? Season ticket holders should get half the money back if we don’t win the MVC. I truly believe in players getting money but each team should have the same salary cap. You can get more on performance base like winning the conference championship, NCAA appearance and each game won in tournament. Also I believe a finders fee should go to the school that loses the player. You pay 💰 to the NIL or have to go play the mid majors on that teams home floor that lost the player. Wild West will kill every college that isn’t a Major sports University. Salary Cap is the only thing that would save mid majors and make it closer to a level playing field.
 
Think I’m out. I can’t believe I’m saying this, but I just have no interest in watching a brand new team of 2nd rate players every year. And in the rare occasion we find someone decent, they’ll just get poached to ride the bench at a PC the next year. Thanks NCAA, you suck.
 
Tommy said:
Think I’m out. I can’t believe I’m saying this, but I just have no interest in watching a brand new team of 2nd rate players every year. And in the rare occasion we find someone decent, they’ll just get poached to ride the bench at a PC the next year. Thanks NCAA, you suck.
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This is not on the NCAA, this is on the court system that thought it was a good idea to pay these players and also allow players to transfer every season. They are ruining college sports period.
 
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Landof10thcoaches said:
They can take the money and run fine but you will never have a jersey retirement at that school. This has to change it’s harder and harder to be a fan of mid major basketball. Remember when everyone was to hard on these kids 😂 Now we should be booing and asking for our money back for lack of performance right? Season ticket holders should get half the money back if we don’t win the MVC. I truly believe in players getting money but each team should have the same salary cap. You can get more on performance base like winning the conference championship, NCAA appearance and each game won in tournament. Also I believe a finders fee should go to the school that loses the player. You pay 💰 to the NIL or have to go play the mid majors on that teams home floor that lost the player. Wild West will kill every college that isn’t a Major sports University. Salary Cap is the only thing that would save mid majors and make it closer to a level playing field.
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tomahawk chop said:
This is not on the NCAA, this is on the court system that thought it was a good idea to pay these players and also allow players to transfer every season. They are ruining college sports period.
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It is on the NCAA and schools. They created a billion dollar business (ads, merch, video games, etc.), and then told the kids that they couldn't benefit. If they would have let them sell memorabilia and merch this likely could have been avoided.
 
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