Recruiting 2019

[Deleted User 62]

So, that means RJ must be going elsewhere.

[ousdahl]

I dunno if a top-tier recruit is gonna be too concerned about a former coach’s son walking on.

[jfish26]

...maybe Jank will be the Brady to RJ's Sherron.

[Deleted User 62]

I dunno if a top-tier recruit is gonna be too concerned about a former coach’s son walking on.

I was being facetious

[Deleted User 266]

RJ set to make his announcement May 28th

7:30am on ESPN

[Shirley]

RJ set to make his announcement May 28th

7:30am on ESPN

#toosoon

[Deleted User 89]

are we gonna win?

[PortlandHawk]

Honestly all signs seem to point to Downunder

[JayhawkInIowa726]

Overseas.....

[CrimsonNBlue]

God Save the Rules!

[JayhawkInIowa726]

New Zealand....

[columbusdjkc]

Officially a terrible recruiting year

[NewtonHawk11]

Hahaha of course. I’ve been on vacation so I’ve kind of stayed off here but it just felt like that over the last couple of days. It was either Kansas or NZ.

Then the guys at Barstool who have ownership with the NZ club dropped a hint on their podcast.

Sucks. Self has struggled in this recruiting cycle with the top guys. Still think the guys he got will he terrific in 2-3 years, but no immediate contributors outside of Dok and SDS back.

[ousdahl]

God Save the Rules!

But college ball can afford to loose these sorts of talents, we’ve been over this.

[punkrockhawk]

What a joke. Glad we got drug through the mud with another drama queen recruit. The one and done thing cannot die quickly enough.

[CrimsonNBlue]

What does this mean for college basketball and the future NBA talent pipeline?

That's the most complicated question here. A working group was announced earlier this month exploring the topic of allowing players to benefit from the use of their names, images and likeness. That has direct implications for a prospect such as Hampton.

Beyond the benefits of playing professional basketball and earning a salary in the year before he's eligible to be drafted, he also is now able to sign endorsement deals a year earlier, since he's no longer is under the umbrella of the NCAA's amateurism rules. For someone like Hampton, who already boasts over 250,000 followers on Instagram (more than the projected top-two picks James Wiseman and Anthony Edwards combined), that could put him in line for a lucrative sneaker deal would likely be about six figures.

Some would argue that college basketball fans watch the sport more due to attachment to schools than specific star players. TV ratings exploding this season in no small part due to Zion Williamson suggest otherwise. College basketball is in a great place these days, scandals or not, but the changing landscape of the industry is something that the sport's higher ups would be foolish to completely ignore.

The big question that will arise now that Hampton has decided to take the plunge and sign in the NBL is whether any other marquee prospects will look to follow in his footsteps. Besides Ball, who would be a natural fit to play for one of the smaller teams in the NBL due to the type of playing time and development they could offer, there might not be another immediate one-and-done candidate to pursue at this stage for the 2019-20 season, as almost top every player is already committed to a college.

One factor that could change things: potential fallout from ongoing NCAA investigations stemming from the FBI corruption trials that recently concluded. NCAA investigations are currently underway into Arizona, Kansas, NC State and Louisville, while schools such as LSU and Oregon were also prominently mentioned in evidence and testimony presented at the trials.

NCAA postseason sanctions and/or head coaching firings could cause current players under scholarship at affected schools, as well as elite-level prospects enrolling this summer, to rethink their plans for next season. The NBL will likely look to scoop up any projected draft picks that decided to abandon ship, as will the NBA G League, which is offering its own professional path in the form of the G League Select Contract. The G League likely won't take kindly to losing out on a player of Hampton's caliber, and it may need to rethink its program structure moving forward considering it has yet to sign a single player for next season.

Another pool of players that the NBL may target are prospects who are already enrolled in college and would prefer not to sit out a year by transferring. There are quite a few players currently on the NBA draft early-entry list -- such as Kansas' Quentin Grimes, Michigan's Jordan Poole, or Wake Forest's Jaylen Hoard -- who are projected as second-round picks and may prefer to have a change of scenery next season without needing to redshirt. With the G League having ruled out taking on players in this mold for their Select program (although they'd still be eligible to take regular $35,000 contracts), this may be a market the NBL could look toward as well.

Finally, the NBL might not look strictly at North American high school and college players as potential Next Star candidates. Prospects from Europe, Africa or even Australia (like the next Ben Simmons or Josh Green) could come into play at some point as well. International agents have expressed frustration at times with the difficulty they've encountered in finding competitive, attractive first division situations with ample playing time for NBA draft prospects .

If the NBL teams can prove to have the patience and long-term thinking needed to use the infrastructure at their disposal to develop young players for the NBA draft -- and, in turn, potentially reap lucrative buyouts -- Australia and New Zealand could become fertile grounds for players to spend a year (or more) prior to entering the draft. The fact that there is no relegation in the now nine-team NBL certainly helps, as it reduces the downside of losing games as young players acclimate to their new environment.

http://www.espn.com/nba/insider/story/_ ... s-nba-ncaa

[NewtonHawk11]

How exactly was he a drama queen?

[CrimsonNBlue]

What a joke. Glad we got drug through the mud with another drama queen recruit. The one and done thing cannot die quickly enough.

One and Done has been great for college basketball.

CBB hurts itself with bad rules.

[punkrockhawk]

How exactly was he a drama queen?

Dragging out his recruiting and trolling the various schools recruiting him, etc. Just my opinion.

[ousdahl]

...shame on a kid for pursuing his fair market value?