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*Official* B1G In-Season Thread

Don’t most guys at his level have some sort of insurance to cover a portion of this risk? I thought I heard something about this when Zion got hurt earlier this year. Like $8-$10M or something like that in case of injury resulting in an adverse impact on his draft position.
I think most do but I'm not sure of the particulars of what specifically would trigger a payout. It definitely helps offset the lost income but if a career ending injury (rare I know), I doubt if offsets the full income loss.

Frankly, I think the advances they've made with ACL tears and such the last decade plus mitigates the risk quite a bit. 15-20 years ago, guys who tore their ACL's usually didn't come back with the same explosiveness they had pre-injury. Now, it seems they largely do.
 
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I think most do but I'm not sure of the particulars of what specifically would trigger a payout. It definitely helps offset the lost income but if a career ending injury (rare I know), I doubt if offsets the full income loss.

Frankly, I think the advances they've made with ACL tears and such the last decade plus mitigates the risk quite a bit. 15-20 years ago, guys who tore their ACL's usually didn't come back with the same explosiveness they had pre-injury. Now, it seems they largely do.
I hope we don’t see this sitting out stuff become a trend like it seems to be on college football.
 
I hope we don’t see this sitting out stuff become a trend like it seems to be on college football.
I agree that I don't want it to occur but I've never been in their shoes (though I had a pretty sweet jumper in rec ball at Purdue).

One the one hand, you commit to a school to play basketball for them in exchange for them committing an education to you. And going to battle with your teammates would leave me feeling like I've let them down if sitting out while healthy.

On the flip side, these guys are slated to make multi-generational life changing money and that would be hard to risk.
 
I hope we don’t see this sitting out stuff become a trend like it seems to be on college football.
I think the fact that the conference tournaments and the NCAA Tournament still have very real stakes is what will protect basketball from what we've seen in football. And while I wouldn't begrudge a guy for sitting out if he's a projected lottery pick, I'm with you - I hope it doesn't trickle over to basketball.
 
I think the fact that the conference tournaments and the NCAA Tournament still have very real stakes is what will protect basketball from what we've seen in football. And while I wouldn't begrudge a guy for sitting out if he's a projected lottery pick, I'm with you - I hope it doesn't trickle over to basketball.

I don’t think you will ever see it happen with the NCAA tournament because of the exposure a player can have with a big run. Players get drafted higher because of NCAA tournament runs.

Besides the playoff and maybe 2 other New Years games the bowl games are meaningless.

The NIT is like the meaningless bowl games could not care less if a star player sits out.
 
Besides the playoff and maybe 2 other New Years games the bowl games are meaningless.

The NIT is like the meaningless bowl games could not care less if a star player sits out.
Exactly. It's funny to me that certain fans think the bowl games - outside of the NYD and playoff games - are anything other than exhibitions and an excuse for fans to travel somewhere warm.
 
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It appears the scUMbags are due for another loss today if my math checks out
 
The tickets I copped last night for $159 each (before fees) are going for over $300 right now. One (or both) of the fanbases is traveling well today.
 
SmokinSmile Everton beats Chelsea 2-0. Its going to be a good day. I can feel it, Maryland is going to get a good draw.



It won’t matter though, because they will lose in the first round

As an Arsenal fan this Chelsea loss was very nice
 
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Are you an Iowa fan? I'm confused by your screen name.

I’m not wrong though. UM had 15 points and 7 of then were complete gifts from refs. Mathews clearly shoved Winston, no call, UM hit 3. McQuaid was set for a year and a block. Henry clearly all ball. Foul. 4 made free throws.

UM can’t score and refs are gifting them points
 
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Damn...sucks for Ahrens. That might be a broken ankle. It's at least a significant sprain.
 
I hate this game. Absolutely pointless. Just lost a key contributed. For what?
I got grief on the home board for not being crushed by the loss to Minnesota. Carsen was clearly hurt and his playing consecutive days in a largely meaningless conference tournament was a risk.

I don't like conference tournaments for this reason.
 
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