Goro Majima said:
agsfan said:
We had a coach with Parkinson's that had missed the tournament in 3 straight years. He hires Rick Stansbury and starts getting high level transfers like Jalen and Danuel, and signs (probably) the best recruiting class in A&M basketball history.
Nobody should be surprised that we were paying players.
Everyone's paying players. E V E R Y O N E.
That's just not true. It really isn't. There are 351 d1 programs. Most college basketball programs couldn't afford to pay players if they wanted. There are d1 programs with head cooaches making under six figures and assistants even less. And those assistants are sharing hotel rooms and eating fast food when they go on recruiting trips.
I would say most legit pro prospects are getting money. But most of that money is not coming from college coaches or boosters and they are usually, as I said before, really just complicit side beneficiaries.