Oregon head coach Altman RETIRES
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I just posted earlier that cbb has an insanely out of control nil problem that is going to have lasting negative effects on the sport if they don't do something quickly.
Not only is there fan disengagement en masse, its now routine for long time coaches to just abruptly retire as the season starts.
Not only is there fan disengagement en masse, its now routine for long time coaches to just abruptly retire as the season starts.
I noticed your post in another thread and liked it because it’s not if but when
This is such a garbage move by coaches that do this trying to insinuate their replacements. Not a fan.
Not a fan of this retire right before the season nonsense that bennett and now this guy pulled.
Edit as I got Wright confised with Bennett. Wright left n April for retirement.
Edit as I got Wright confised with Bennett. Wright left n April for retirement.
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He’s coming home to hang with Trent on the bench. It was all just a ploy to get Oregon money then come to Kentucky for free.
My mind goes to health reasons this late in the game, but your point very much stands. He could've just said enough of this, I got enough money and don't want to deal with the headaches. Maybe he had to deal with Jasper's uncle lol
As a fan, I think I prefer this to watching our players bolt after a coach leaves. Altman has done Oregon fans a favor by waiting until late in the semester so that players cannot transfer. If they enter the portal, where will they go at this time of year?
And it never works. These coaches trying to get their assistant the interim always blow things up, it's selfish. Coach out the year, say it's your last year and let your school run a search.
Did tony Bennett do the same thing last year? Or the year before?
Even if it is health reasons, you can bet all the extra bs with this insane money played a part in creating those health reasons.
I know cal is whiny and a blowhard but he really raised some awareness about something i started posting about over a year ago - college basketball nil is way more than people think. People didn't realize the ninth guy on the bench was making almost a million per year.
Its way beyond out of control.
Bruce Pearl and Tony Bennett at UVA were two others who pulled the retire 2 weeks before the season starts routine.
Not a fan of the timing but Altman was one of the more underrated coaches in the game.
Fan of what? Totally screws these kids over. If it isn’t for a dire health reason, the coach committed fraud.
No clue where he would even fit in on the roster, Milan and Kam are gonna get the bulk of the minutes at the 3. Don’t know if he’s good enough of a guard to play the 2
I'm just glad he never taught his 2017 team to box out on free throws
Yeah, Bennett did the same thing and I never heard of any health or family issues.
I don't have issue with guys getting paid, my main beef is with the unlimited free agency; which then causes prices to go way up. You can recruit a guy and tell them we got 1 million for you in year 1, and then 1.5 million in year 2 with a chance to make more. Then after year 1, another school enters the picture and says we got 3.5 million for you. Then that causes the bidding wars and prices just get absolutely crazy. The cat is out of the bag, just enter the portal every offseason and let the bidding wars begin.
The amount an individual player is making is not what's "out of control", that's what the market decided they're worth. More worrying is the imbalance money creates in general, destroying competitive balance. The solution is to make sure guys can get paid while ensuring all schools have around the same amount to pay out. The bigger issue killing the sport is the portal.
Could be the team wasn't shaping up the way he hoped and he thought' "Well, I was going to retire soon anyway."
When a ninth spot guy is making over half a million, it is way out of control. Im not talking about a free market perspective, I am talking about the practical health of the sport.
Fans are quickly losing interest. Coaches are leaving. The nba is being dominated by non aau guys because aau mentality is ruining cbb first through fundamentals and now mentality.
Ya free market indeed dictates that 9th best player get paid 500k-1 mil but in a few years no one will make anything because it will be relegated to irrelevance.
He watched Jasper try to dribble and just quit
It's Rome and its overspending all over again. Similarly, it's happening to the marching arts scene where so much money is being spent on props and show design, that the art no longer looks like what everyone grew up on. Kids don't march now, they dance and run. Electronics has taken over the scene. Yeah, it's not NIL, but it's the pursuit of drama and personality over substance and execution that is killing the event. Coaches simply don't want to be involved in a product that isn't the product anymore,band I don't blame them a bit.
Nothing new. Its literally been in the rules this entire time.
Rage baiters like tucker dont understand this tweet might get alot of likes but his entire job will take a massive hit if people stop caring about this sport, which is rapidly happening.
College sports viewership is hitting record highs, completely disproving the narrative that fans are tuning out due to NIL or the transfer portal.
Here is the condensed breakdown of why college athletics remains a television juggernaut:
• Men's Regular Season Surge: Viewership for the 2025–26 regular season jumped 17% overall across rated networks, with men’s college hoops seeing a 20% spike (averaging 381,000 viewers across 1,100+ games) [sportsbusinessjournal.com].
• March Madness Boom: The 2026 Men's National Championship game averaged 18.3 million viewers—a seven-year high [ncaa.com]. The entire tournament averaged 10.9 million viewers per broadcast, making it the second most-watched March Madness since 1994 [ncaa.com].
• Football Dominance: Premium regular-season matchups routinely rival the NFL, with marquee games drawing up to 14 million viewers.
Why Ratings are Climbing
• The "Reality Show" Effect: Instead of killing interest, the transfer portal and NIL free agency have created year-round player drama, intense revenge storylines, and massive roster curiosity.
• Super-Conferences: Massive conference realignments mean powerhouse schools now face each other regularly, replacing predictable blowout games with high-stakes, marquee TV matchups.
Social media traditionalists may complain, but the data shows they are still glued to the screen.
I can tell that is an ai response which probably just summarized a reddit or blog post.
Cfb is as high as its ever been because they are handling nil way better somehow. In person attendance is still super high.
Cbb ratings will be down until March madness rolls around. Its in person attendance will be putrid. Just look at bbm with all the empty seats.
Altman quickly climbs to the top UK candidate without a current job.
It's AI, but if you look, it has the sources listed([ncaa.com].and [sportsbusinessjournal.com]) and they're not reddit or blog post. The blog post and reddit post are the ones saying fans are losing interest. The data says otherwise.
I’m not certain that these salaries are dictated by an honest market. Most schools are losing money and have hit all their sources that they have for money. This current framework has no comparison to the pros. They function under a salary cap, can sign players to multiyear contracts and can release players. NIL still exists but that is truly market driven, negotiated by the business and player and has little relationship to the team they play for. Not all players pan out which makes it a crapshoot. Many schools have enough to buy at least one or two players and has spread the talent. Look at the teams that made the Final Four the last few years and it is a mishmash of teams many of which only once. I agree the portal makes it even worse. Putting together a new team every year and having sustained success is a coin flip. UConn has been able to not avoid the letdowns
AI is garbage in, garbage out.
My source is all the empty seats for bbm and that's after they gave away who knows how many tickets. Its everywhere though.
College football is as popular as ever.
Of course the clown Pearl pulled the same thing last season.
Practice? We talking about practice!
Here are last year’s national attendance numbers. Kentucky led the nation.
herosports.com
Here are last year’s national attendance numbers. Kentucky led the nation.
2025-26 Top 50 College Basketball Attendance
We have a wrap on the 2025-26 college basketball season, so let’s take a look at the top 50 attendance numbers across the sport.
herosports.com
Practice! We talking about practice!
Here are the national attendance statistics for actual games. Kentucky led the nation.
2025-26 Top 50 College Basketball Attendance
We have a wrap on the 2025-26 college basketball season, so let’s take a look at the top 50 attendance numbers across the sport.
herosports.com
The guy left arkanfat 24 hours after landing there. Calling the hogs gave him a "WTF am I doing moment". He can't be all bad.
I enjoyed his teams at Creighton. Their wins over Louisville and Florida in the 1999 and 2002 NCAA Tournaments were awesome.
With that being said, if Stubblefield gets more than this season, I'll be shocked. As bad as DePaul has been since 2006 or so, his time there was historically bad.
With that being said, if Stubblefield gets more than this season, I'll be shocked. As bad as DePaul has been since 2006 or so, his time there was historically bad.
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