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re: Basketball Recruiting Thread: 6’8 G/F Elyjah Freeman commits!!!
Posted by sbr2 on 4/28/25 at 8:52 am
Just some wishful thinking based on new faces, I can't help it
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re: Basketball Recruiting Thread: 6’8 G/F Elyjah Freeman commits!!!
Posted by sbr2 on 4/27/25 at 5:01 pm
I agree, too many new faces that have to learn to play together. On the high side maybe a 4 seed in the NCAA tourney.
re: Basketball Recruiting Thread: 6’8 G/F Elyjah Freeman commits!!!
Posted by sbr2 on 4/17/25 at 1:52 pm
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Next question is it actually enforceable?
I would think that because it doesn't limit his ability to profit of his name and likeness i.e. transfer to another school - it would be valid.
Not a bad first step to claw back something if guys are leaving left and right.
... but I'm also not a lawyer so could be way off base here
re: Basketball Recruiting Thread: 6’8 G/F Elyjah Freeman commits!!!
Posted by sbr2 on 4/17/25 at 11:26 am
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You do realize we made the final four last year?
Can't believe there are Auburn fans comparing CBM leaving to KD leaving :lol:
KD was a pinball inside scorer with no outside shot who more often than not was a net negative.
CBM was an integral piece to our offense and defense on a team that made the final four.
If we can't pay our contributing players on the back of the success we just had then we are not serious as a basketball program in this new era.
re: Basketball Recruiting Thread: 6’8 G/F Elyjah Freeman commits!!!
Posted by sbr2 on 4/17/25 at 10:24 am
Just goes to show you shouldn't expect anyone to stay put for long, CBM and the coaching staff brought the best out of each other (ejections aside) and he is still leaving. He is probably keenly aware that this is his last chance to get a bag playing bball.
re: OT: Last post here
Posted by sbr2 on 4/14/25 at 3:24 pm
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freemanjiro bat signal
If he could just hold back his porn posting habits, he was a unique kind of crazy
re: A-Day Was a disappointment
Posted by sbr2 on 4/12/25 at 9:47 pm
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Still, I question the wisdom of making 18 to 22 year old children multi-millionaires because they can run faster, hit harder, or throw/catch a ball better than their peers.
I don't disagree and to top it off some states have been trying to allow tax exemptions on those earnings too :lol:
As if running, hitting, throwing/catching should qualify you for even more earnings than regular people.
Either congress steps in and levels the playing field or the top 40 (or even less) teams get together and leave the NCAA behind to "solve" these issues.
re: A-Day Was a disappointment
Posted by sbr2 on 4/12/25 at 6:35 pm
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The PTB has to put in many regulations to stop the bleeding. Contracts for a start. Transfer limitations might be hard to do because a regular student can up and transfer schools at anytime. But contracts can slow that down. Put a “salary cap” on the programs. There are other options but those would be great starts.
They can't. The NCAA punted on paying players for so long that the court system nuked the student athlete myth. Congress could pass something to provide an anti-trust exemption but cmon.
Every single thing you listed would get struck down by the court system as infringing on an athletes ability to be paid what they are worth, which has led to what we have now.
re: OT: Last post here
Posted by sbr2 on 4/12/25 at 12:17 pm
It's not a topic that gets a lot of play outside of illegal immigration and H1B visas, so I take it as an opportunity to broaden perspectives.
re: OT: Last post here
Posted by sbr2 on 4/12/25 at 11:49 am
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shite show former administration I’m sure there is some sort of backlog currently but generally the average is 18-24 months.
I know this doesn't fit into your narrative but the naturalized citizenship pathway takes longer than any presidential term. Especially if you go the visa - > green card route which is fairly typical and you've got the have money to pay for everything that comes up.
I don't mind all the requirements per say but the timelines have been screwed up for 30 years or so. Even longer if you were Asian trying to immigrate before 1965.
re: OT: Last post here
Posted by sbr2 on 4/11/25 at 7:11 pm
A good friend of mine moved here on a visa in 1991 and it took until 2007 to complete the process so it's more of a "the process is difficult and expensive" than anything else. It's also a separate process to how an illegal immigrant applies.
re: OT: Last post here
Posted by sbr2 on 4/11/25 at 7:00 pm
There is a huge bureaucratic lag time for people getting their natural citizenship. Unless you know somebody or are famous
re: Steven Pearl
Posted by sbr2 on 4/10/25 at 8:42 am
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If it wasn’t his son but another asst how would you feel? Just curious.
I would feel the exact same if a longtime assistant with no HC experience took over after the extended run of success we've had under Pearl.
re: Braden Smith Article on ESPN
Posted by sbr2 on 4/9/25 at 3:33 pm
It would be just about impossible to disentangle CTE with various psychiatric issues that affect the population at large. Unless there was a diagnosis before a person ever started playing football.
re: Auburn Men's Basketball 2025 - What does the lineup look like?
Posted by sbr2 on 4/8/25 at 10:20 am
Agreed, unless it's a top flight recruit it seems like big programs don't reserve a spot for a developing high school recruit. They kind of offload that responsibility to a smaller program and come back to pick them up if they end up developing :usa:
re: Tahaad Pettiford Enters NBA Draft
Posted by sbr2 on 4/7/25 at 11:35 am
That's good to hear, I didn't think he'd transfer out for a comparable NIL deal somewhere else but I was wondering if some program would throw most of their NIL budget at him.
re: Stop Avoiding my Bruce Roster Question
Posted by sbr2 on 4/7/25 at 11:33 am
I'm trying to parse what he is trying to say too...
By the end of the regular season it was pretty clear that rotation had been set and if any of the regular rotation guys got fouls (which they did quite often) we really had no option but to provide less rest to our starters because guys like Pegues and Hudsen were non-entities.
I chalk it up to a player scouting whiff which you really can't do if you expect to make it through a long season AND have a reasonable chance to win it all.
By the end of the regular season it was pretty clear that rotation had been set and if any of the regular rotation guys got fouls (which they did quite often) we really had no option but to provide less rest to our starters because guys like Pegues and Hudsen were non-entities.
I chalk it up to a player scouting whiff which you really can't do if you expect to make it through a long season AND have a reasonable chance to win it all.
re: Basketball Recruiting Thread: 6’8 G/F Elyjah Freeman commits!!!
Posted by sbr2 on 4/7/25 at 9:49 am
I've not read anything about Howard either way but with the transfer portal I have a hard time seeing a freshman who got put in the doghouse for almost an entire year - coming back.
re: Basketball Recruiting Thread: 6’8 G/F Elyjah Freeman commits!!!
Posted by sbr2 on 4/7/25 at 9:24 am
I don't think you're wrong. Auburn is not a basketball factory and even those schools struggle to make it to the championship game consistently. We had just about everything we needed - elite paint scoring, pretty good guard scoring, terrific defensive cohesion.
re: Basketball Recruiting Thread: 6’8 G/F Elyjah Freeman commits!!!
Posted by sbr2 on 4/6/25 at 9:23 pm
I guess my issue is we're probably not going to be seeing too many guys with NBA potential sitting in one place for multiple years.
If you have decent college production and a NBA skill you're going to be either getting the draft grade you want or a bigger deal and I hope Auburn ponies up for Tahaad but the numbers being thrown around are ridiculous and I don't know committed the Auburn bball donors are (even though they should be).
If you have decent college production and a NBA skill you're going to be either getting the draft grade you want or a bigger deal and I hope Auburn ponies up for Tahaad but the numbers being thrown around are ridiculous and I don't know committed the Auburn bball donors are (even though they should be).
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