In Reply to: The difference is that in college, from the best that I can posted by ej on April 27, 2025 at 12:31:23
the article wasn't suggesting anything different, but just saying that the amount of money you can raise constitutes your "cap" and you have to make that amount work for you.
When it was scholarships (talking above the table money here now), the point was playing time and how players felt they would fit in, media, that sort of thing. But today it starts with the money you have and you have to make that work for you. So in our case it involved bringing back four key players and adding one top of the line player - a PG - and after that you have what you have to play with. You can try to raise more - and no doubt Mick is doing that - but it means we landing our elite PG and then we got the best possibility we could to make do at center and after that we weren't shopping the top 100 list.
That's what I was trying to say - those 300+ level players is what you can afford when your serious money is gone. And for coaches, having a background in business and accounting would be pretty helpful these days