David West guides new basketball league as different option to NCAA

[posaune]

https://crescentcitysports.com/david-west-guides-new-basketball-league-as-different-option-to-develop-and-educate-professionals/

[MHettel]

thats literally a year old.

who knows what the status is, given a new idea trying to be launched during Covid

[posaune]

Sorry, meant to grab this link. The update is that the league now has a media deal, which potentially makes it more legit.

https://www.barstoolsports.com/blog/3360245/another-league-coming-for-the-ncaa-the-pcl-just-signed-a-media-deal-is-now-trying-to-land-top-high-school-recruits-and-pay-them-dollar100000

[GoMuskies]

I'm glad kids have options, but who the hell wants to watch that shit other than some NBA draft nerds?

(Oh, and gamblers. Gamblers will definitely be interested if there's a betting line.)

[smileyy]

Sounds like what the new G-League teams are trying to do.

[UCGRAD4X]

So, at some point, perhaps, there could be a player(s) attending Xavier and playing professional basketball for a different team?

They are not going to pay lower level kids to play in this league - they are going to attract some pretty good players. Maybe even kids that the University pursued. How are the unpaid players going to view this scenario? If there is a push to pay players now, this might really open the floodgates. Paying players, like it or not, is inevitable.

NCAA will (should) be forced to get out ahead of this or get their exemption revoked.