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Subject: Kids, If You're Going to Prostitute Yourselves, Know Your Value

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Date Posted: 22:02:58 03/15/25 Sat
In reply to: Bengal 's message, "Re: Forty hours and counting" on 21:35:53 03/15/25 Sat

Bengal, a great philosopher in Carolina blue once uttered the immortal words, "The ceiling is the roof."

With MJ's brilliance as inspiration, I would opine that, "Your basement is not the floor."

In other words, there's no firm rule why lower producing conferences should be guaranteed even one bid to the NCAA tournament in all sports.

College basketball will soon be indistinguishable from the G League. When we get there in the near future, the NCAA will revisit where the NCAA was before Princeton's near-upset against Georgetown in 1989, when the big boys wanted us out. There's no question that they still want us out and, with college basketball now unapologetically a for-profit business, the charm of the plucky little engines that could may run out.

Interestingly, I think that we stand a better chance of remaining competitive in men's lacrosse than feared by M3. A huge percentage of male lacrosse alumni want to work on Wall Street. And there is still no better membership card to working on the corner of Wall and Broad than an Ivy League sheepskin.

I think that's our ace in the hole in men's lax. What's a guy making from his NIL deal at Notre Dame? 10 grand? 50 grand?

I hate NILs and, as I've said on this board many times, NILs will eviscerate the economic development of America's underclass. This is terrible for our country. And given all the other s--t going on, that's saying a lot.

But here's one thing I'd say to all kids thinking about choosing their college based on their NIL offer: Don't sell yourself short.

If your goal is to work on Wall Street, you need to be thinking in terms of numbers that have two commas.

Going to Notre Dame (which of course is an excellent university) for 50 grand is laughable when the right Ivy connections will pay off over the following decades for paychecks that have eight and nine digits.

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