What is ridiculous, my thread or that they have pro players?
Pro players. Your thread is spot-on.
The players are getting paid which makes them professional
Really, most of them? Man that is hard to understand as NIL court rulings and anti-restrait of trade rules have nothing to do with letting former pros play college ball
what rock have you been under..
Here's the list as I found it.
At least nominally, though, college players don't play their sport as a job. They are somewhat limited by academic obligations. I do think there's something to be said for bringing in players who are already mature and already have probably multiple seasons of pro ball, against other full professionals, under their belts.
Yes. Pro ball here and pro ball in Europe doesn't mean the same thing unless we're talking EuroLeauge, and even then the top half of the NBA is a significant cut above. They have S, A, B, C, etc tier competitions and a lot of these guys are playing in a C tier at the highest. There are a lot of non basketball reasons being classified as pro is beneficial overseas.
My bad, didn't realize you were still crying about some call you didn't like.
Rules are rules. Shame on that guy for commenting the officials didn’t follow them.
Would you say a college “pro” player is the exact same as an NBA pro player?
SC Derby is not a student athletic organization. It is a professional basketball team, whose nickname (as you said), translates to Students. They play in a professional basketball league. Same with the other foreign “pros” on the Illinois team. The amount of money they made over there is completely irrelevant.
Also SC Derby isn’t even a U19 team, or we’d see it in the name. I’m sure they have a U19 team, but two thirds of the first team roster is older than 19. Also if they were U19 players they wouldn’t be considered professionals, even though they’ve signed a professional contract. Explaining European youth academy contracts and development systems to Jump seems like a tall ask.
But if you did nothing but practice carving 5 days a week for 8 hours/day,then went to work carving 2 days, then went back to drilling on carving 5 more days to prepare for your work shift and did this for 4 years, you might be a pro carver.
I’m not saying that SC Derby is playing high level ball, but they are still professionals playing against grown a$$ men. Salary doesn’t matter, surely you’re smart enough to see that.
Iowa was essentially the ‘80 USA hockey team playing the Russians on Saturday…
It has nothing to do with that. It has everything to do with constantly changing the rules to gain a competitive advantage. Once you open Pandora’s box, it’s very hard to close it. Pro players regardless of “where” were not allowed to play college sports, now that has changed. What don’t you understand about that?
They wouldn’t have an opportunity to play in the G League or the NBA? Some of them absolutely could play in the G League. The issue is that with NIL money, college is becoming a more financially attractive option, which is pulling talent away from those paths. Maybe take a closer look at how the system actually works and then come back.
