Game changers 🌟@TheAndyKatz ranks the top 16 guards in the nation ✍️ pic.twitter.com/DcW46I1ppx
— NCAA March Madness (@MarchMadnessMBB) September 13, 2024
Game changers 🌟@TheAndyKatz ranks the top 16 guards in the nation ✍️ pic.twitter.com/DcW46I1ppx
— NCAA March Madness (@MarchMadnessMBB) September 13, 2024
Not overalll, but good chance Sears outplays him when we play.bobinator said:
There aren't going to be seven guards better than Wade Taylor this season.
bobinator said:
There aren't going to be seven guards better than Wade Taylor this season.
40 inches tall...CapCityAg89 said:
Wait? Isn't Zakai Ziegler like 40 at this point?!
The Marksman said:40 inches tall...CapCityAg89 said:
Wait? Isn't Zakai Ziegler like 40 at this point?!
Method Man said:Not overalll, but good chance Sears outplays him when we play.bobinator said:
There aren't going to be seven guards better than Wade Taylor this season.
Pretty sure Armando Bacot went from NIL directly to social security.bobinator said:
Yeah, I thought all along that the two sports that were going to really benefit from NIL were men's hoops and baseball.
Yeah I'm not hating on Katz for having him as the 8th best guard in college basketball. At that level of player you're in "eye of the beholder" territory, but I'm not sure what you mean "after the way he played most of last year."nelsonagholor said:
Agreed, but I wouldn't expect Katz to rank him very high after the way he played for most of last year
It's funny because due to some of the Covid players, actual four-year Freshman-to-senior-on-the-same-team guys don't feel quite as old as they used to. Zeigler and Taylor are four year players, but RJ Davis is a fifth year guy that's been at Carolina the whole time.MarcAg said:
I'm sure other people think Wade has been around forever
MarcAg said:
I'm sure other people think Wade has been around forever
I don't think that's a "new normal," if anything it's starting to trend back the other way thanks to NIL. For like a 15 year stretch from when the one-and-done rule was put in in 2007 only one player returned to college after being the national player of the year (Hansbrough.) Now there's been a couple in a row (Tshiebwe, Edey.)AggByMarriage said:MarcAg said:
I'm sure other people think Wade has been around forever
As a senior on a D-1 team he has been. I hate the new normal of 1-and-done or 2 years max.
bobinator said:I don't think that's a "new normal," if anything it's starting to trend back the other way thanks to NIL. For like a 15 year stretch from when the one-and-done rule was put in in 2007 only one player returned to college after being the national player of the year (Hansbrough.) Now there's been a couple in a row (Tshiebwe, Edey.)AggByMarriage said:MarcAg said:
I'm sure other people think Wade has been around forever
As a senior on a D-1 team he has been. I hate the new normal of 1-and-done or 2 years max.
Look at last year's AP First team All-Americans, who were all seniors, compared to say 10-15 years ago:
2024: Edey (senior), Knecht (senior), Davis (senior but returning for a super senior season), Shead (senior), Newton (senior)
2008: Two freshmen (Love and Beasley), a sophomore (Augustin) and two juniors (Douglas-Roberts, Hansbrough)
2009: Three sophomores (Blair, Griffin, Harden), a junior (Curry) and a senior (Hansbrough)
2010: A freshman (Wall), two juniors (Johnson and Turner) and two seniors (Collins and Reynolds)
2011: outlier here where there were three seniors (Fredette, Johnson, Smith) a freshman (Sullinger) and a junior (Walker)
2012: A freshman (Davis), two sophomores (McDermott and Sullinger) a junior (Robinson) and a senior (Green)
We probably could have kept a player like Tyler Davis around for another year if he played these days.
greg.w.h said:
Assuming the House v. NCAA settlement indeed rewards past players to 2016 and fairly distributes future revenue to football and basketball players (thereby gutting the Title IX distributions EXCEPT for basic funding not college-paid NIL for the colleges use of athletes for marketing purposes), you likely could see a shift back to longer tenures in college for the more workemen players while the more athletically gifted still go one and done or really work hard and go G league.
Assuming we know how all of this ends is might sporty imho.