J'Vonne Hadley (Curtis Jones' cousin) to have zoom meetings with Iowa State & MSU this week
- Thread starter Connor_Ferguson
- Start date
Louisville was 8-24 this season. Hadley might be their best player, which I'm sure sounds appealing. Oh wait, it's the money! Duh!
With guys they have coming in to visit and the amount of money they have to play with….they will more likely be ranked and a tourney team next year.
We had 2 wins prior to TJ's first season.
He's doing this bc he knows he won't get drafted. He's taking the money while it's there.
Last edited:
people need to start getting used to it because it’s the way it’s going to be from now on.
And 99% of us would do the same.
So all of a sudden they have NIL but they didn't the last 2 or 3 years when they were the worst team in college basketball?
I'm not so sure. They're starting from scratch (12 outgoing transfers) and have 4 portal transfers signed:
Hadley (SF) from Colorado
James Scott (C) from Charleston
Reyne Smith (SG) from Charleston
Terrence Edwards (G) from JMU
I know they are throwing around a ton of money and in on some bigger name transfers - but if they don't hit on a bunch of those, they are going to need to play way over their heads
They have plenty of money, can easily compete on the national level. Didn't like the last coach and fanbase was ready to move on.
They were terrible for a couple years before Payne even got there. This was obviously about him getting the largest payday possible.
That would take a TJ-like effort, and that's the exception, not the norm. They could pull that off, but there are plenty of teams who spent like crazy last year and went on to disappoint.
They might have had the worst coach in the country last year which I assume meant people weren't willing to support (this is kind of what I’ve read but it’s obviously an assumption).
What is not an assumption is that at the beginning of April they had a $1 million match and almost raised half of it in 1 day. I think they are pretty much to their goal now, if not already met it. That’s $2 million in two weeks. Isn’t that our entire NIL for all sports? Yeah they have money.
Not saying they land all of those guys but if their coach can even half recruit and coach they’ll be fine. Obviously he has to land the guys first.
Some people on Twitter were saying that some of their football NIL checks "bounced" and were joking that the basketball checks might do the same.
Basically implying that their collective didn't have the money to pay for everything they promised.
I should have prefaced, yes they have to land the guys first but people have to get out of the mindset of past results weighing as much as it used to. Teams can flip the switch and win fast these days.
How is that a character issue? NM, I don't care. Just go be butthurt somewhere else.
