Kerry totally nailed it. It would be a miracle to get an NCAA tournament win with what has transpired. I go and cheer at the games, am hopeful that the banner stays. Next year, and the year after that is just a dark tunnel. We are in sports hell right now, and will continue to be until the resolution of the FBI investigation and the NCAA rulings. Actually hoping the NCAA blows up and the power 5 self-creates a league similar to football-because the players need some sort of compensation with the obscene money in college athletics now. Jimbo gets 75 million guaranteed? What does that say to somebody like Chucky Williams-who has busted his butt for 5 years, gets a degree in communications and goes to work as a telemarketer for $12 bucks an hour?
Their compensation is to play a kid's game well into adulthood and not have to have a nine to five job. They have an excellent opportunity to receive an education that the student sitting next to them is paying through the nose for. That is if they bother going to the classes and sitting through the lectures.
In addition, they are getting a free audition for a job in the NBA and free instruction for that job.
If it were not for UL most would be scratching out a living in some low income job, married to a fat women with three plus kids. They cannot pay the UL enough for the opportunities of prolonging their childhood and being given a chance for being productive after basketball.
UL can get along very well without football and basketball. I'm pretty sure that the great majority of the players cannot get along without UL.