Lanie Grant to TCU
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This seems to have been a done deal, before it was a done deal!
Never the less, all the best to her.
Never the less, all the best to her.
Hate to see her go but there is a possibility to get a better athlete and ball handler now. Trying to be positive.
So the bag is what she wanted !!!!!! I hope she take some of that money on work on her dribbling
I wish Lanie well and I hope she has success at TCU. I was shocked when I first saw that she was transferring. I always thought she gave great effort and I believe she was a good teammate. She represented UNC with class and I will miss her next year wearing the baby blue.
She made a financial decision. If she were your daughter you would want her to do what is best for her future. Sadly UNC isn't the only school that players can play at. Lets wish her well and remember all the good she did for her team and her school.
She made a financial decision. If she were your daughter you would want her to do what is best for her future. Sadly UNC isn't the only school that players can play at. Lets wish her well and remember all the good she did for her team and her school.
This is the reason why we need someone to tell CB to go and talk with the new AD, Steve about finding ways to help give her program more money so that stuff like this will not happen.
I am never going to fault someone for getting a raise, regardless of profession.
I don’t blame anyone for doing what they believe is in their best interests. I genuinely wish Ms. Grant all the best. But, I really thought she would turn into a Tar Heel legend during her time in Chapel Hill. Fun to watch play, high talent ceiling, and by far the best interviewee on the team. Guess I was naive. Oh well, she’s a Horned Frog now.
It’s getting harder and harder to justify the investment of time, energy, and resources into college athletics now. I’m definitely not blaming Ms. Grant for that, her transfer is just another straw added to the pile that is diminishing what used to be so special and unique about college athletics. (With all that said, I’m sure I’ll be “all in” again next year…it’s a vicious fickle cycle, lol)
It’s getting harder and harder to justify the investment of time, energy, and resources into college athletics now. I’m definitely not blaming Ms. Grant for that, her transfer is just another straw added to the pile that is diminishing what used to be so special and unique about college athletics. (With all that said, I’m sure I’ll be “all in” again next year…it’s a vicious fickle cycle, lol)
Well, 3397Char, some of our posters did not say this when DK left although she had gotten her degree. Some posters were not sympathy at all if my memory serves me correct. Some of the comments were just down right hateful. I an hoping that it was not a color thing back then.
<Putting my moderator hat on here>
IC has strict rules on avoiding conversations on race. religion and politics. We are not going down this path.
Well, I just starting the facts. People posted some cruel things about her when she was on her way out. She was not the only one either. I put this out there and now I am done with that fact. The truth will set you free. I will leave it at that and move forward.
I talked for a short time with her Granddad at one of the late season games. It sure seemed like everything was in good standing then but I guess when money becomes available you take it. Best of luck.
And folks...this is what the NIL era has become. Players you think are perfect fits for your team and/or committed to the university and coach and can be lured away by money.
Great for the players, terrible for the game.
You can pretty much guarantee there was "legal" tampering going on. The way the portal works now is a bunch of crap, where agents can be contacted by "unofficial" representatives of various schools long before a player is officially in the portal. The NCAA will never do anything to clean that up.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think now that players participate in revenue sharing, all NIL deals must be bonafide agreements with legitimate businesses/companies for their promotional services (which has to be vetted by the clearing house). I think it was another poster, maybe the insightful 3379char, that detailed this is in another post.
While I'd love to think that we could get the public to come through with, it seems like we really need to get more businesses to see value in having our WBB players as representatives or get them to be willing to spend more on their promotional services. I know some of them may not have the reach that DK did but I think most of our current players would be good ambassadors . And some are actually quite charismatic and entertaining (ahem blueballers). = )
To my knowledge, it is not a violation for a player's agent to contact schools to determine interest and hone in on price. I imagine that is how the vast majority of "tampering" occurs.
It would be tampering for a school to contact a specific player's agent and say we are interested in your client, when they are not in the portal.
The gray area in between is reaching out to multiple agents who each have many clients and saying, "Hey, just so y'all know, this year we are looking for a SG with theses three attributes and this is our budget range." "And a post player with experiences who is at this level, with these stats and this is our budget range." It could even be specific enough that it is pretty clear what small handful of players you want. The agent then goes back to specific players and gauges their interest. That is a sketchy middle, probably permissible, and probably done all the time.
Revenue and expenses for every sport:
If you are asking what our "rev Share" budget is to play players, that is $250K. That will not change until WBB creates more revenue.
If you are asking what our NIL budget is for boosters to pay players through businesses on top of rev share, nobody here knows that.
Yes. We thought they may be out of money after landing A-A Olivia Miles, Clara Silva and Taliyah Parker. Nope.
This year they snagged Grant (~#27 in portal by Creme, ~#28 by CBS, #14 by The Athletic, #11 by USA Today) after landing Somfai (#18 in portal by Creme, #21 by CBS, #17 by USA Today, UR by The Athletic). I bet they are not done
It's that Dallas-Fort Worth money.
With those billionaires in the oil business in TX and gas and oil prices now. Ching Ching!And right now that money is booming.
I would like to see some of these teams cut. Could easily net 4 to 5M by doing so. Fencing is just one example. Rowing is another. Wrestling another. I could go on.
How many of those would you have to cut to make up the $4 million lost by the women’s basketball program? Twice as much as the next largest loss of $2 million by the baseball program. I want women’s basketball to be competitive but it is just not feasible to lose that much money year after year. You could argue that any additional revenue should be used to narrow the loss not to increase spending. The athletic department used to be self sustaining but the University recently had to provide the athletic department $14 million to make up a shortfall. That cannot happen on a regular basis in my opinion. I am hoping something can be done to bring some sanity back to college sports.
The big schools in Texas like Texas, Texas A&M, Texas Tech, and I guess now TCU never seem to run out of money. Everything is bigger in Texas including NIL money.
I think unfortunately for UNC and I see this is a St. Louis Cardinal fan, the economics of college athletics have changed and we are at best a mid market or small market team at least as long as we are in the ACC.
I do not want to cut any of the teams that we have. There is a solution and we just have to find it.
And TCU adds All-Big 12 Honorable Mention Jadyn Wooten of OK State today. She is top 25 also in most of the portal rankings. So that is now 3 consensus top 25 portal players to TCU already.