pay the dang players

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The Video:

[After THE JUMP: Dooley arrives so we get off-topic.]

The Prompt: No fall sports.

The Responses:

Ace: WHERE DO WE EVEN BEGIN?

Brian:

Michigan Hockey is proud to announce the addition of @Matty_Beniers10 to the 2020-21 incoming class!#GoBlue | #NewBlue 〽️ pic.twitter.com/Ndqyc6AYa0

— Michigan Hockey (@umichhockey) August 12, 2020

or were you referring to something else?

Ace: I was referring to the Moe Wagner/Giannis incident.

Giannis just got EJECTED after head butting Moe Wagner pic.twitter.com/BPJKneicOv

— Overtime (@overtime) August 12, 2020

Brian: Honestly I'm surprised it's taken this long for someone to headbutt Moe Wagner. I mean this in the nicest possible way.

Ace: The only surprise here is it was the MVP and not, say, Draymond Green.

BiSB: Big Ten Twitter was very much on Giannis’s side.

Ace: Maybe Giannis is a low-key Purdue fan. Now, are we discussing these things because the outlook for fall sports is, uh, not great? Perhaps.

Brian: furk

Ace: We should probably begin that part of the discussion here: the Big Ten made the only right decision given the current circumstances.

BiSB: [a long silence ensues in MGoSlack]

[After THE JUMP: crickets……wait, CRICKET?]

The Prompt:

Isaiah Todd’s decision came down to money: a G League team was able to offer over the table, the kind of scratch even schools that bag can't cobble together. If that’s how it’s gonna be, how would this affect college basketball?

Matt EM: Talked to my spectrum guy—looks like G League deals are now going in excess of 200k annually. Essentially it looks like the wheels are in motion for college athletics to cease in its current form or all the top 50 or so kids will go G league or overseas. 75k is one one thing, but 200-300k is no longer chump change.

It looks like the CBB product is going to be one big melting pot of mid major basketball at some point unless things change soon. The product is declining every year.

Anthony Ciatti: I figured this would happen once they got the G League to a place where it was developing players. It makes too much sense to be able to develop your players the way you want and the additional expense seems to be worth it. I have wondered if they will ever try to go to academy system and start at 16 instead of 18.

Matt EM: Word is Jalen Green is getting close to 500k for G League. If that's the new standard, CBB is effectively over.

Seth: Or CBB could just pay the guys that much. Because they are a larger operation with more fans and more money.

[After THE JUMP: What happens to college basketball if the Dooks can't Dook?]