The Nile, which makes it possible to pay students-athletes from the NCAA, has completely changed the academic world. Many emblematic coaches (Roy Williams, Mike Krzyzewski, Mike Brey, Jim Boeheim, Tony Bennett, Jay Wright, Jim Larranaga …) have also retired, much that could not make the transition in this new ecosystem.
“At this stage, and after 53 years (in NCAA), I did not feel able to successfully navigate in this new world, because conversations became ridiculous when an agent said to me: ‘You can be in the [pour un joueur] If you are ready to pay up to $ 1.1 million ‘, and that was the standard “ explained Jim Larranaga.
Much higher “wages” than in Europe
From now on, it is in Europe that we are worried because the Nile attracts more and more talents from the old continent. MVP from Euro U20 in 2023, Ilias kamardine will leave Dijon for the faculty of Ole Miss next year. Roman house should join him Murray State from Gravelines-Dunkirk, Yohan et Paul’s bowl will leave the Asvel to join Florida and North Carolina, respectively.
Brice Dessertfrom Strasbourg, would have received offers up to two million dollars per season from Connecticut and Texas Tech. Testless amounts for young European “prospects”, knowing that the 22 -year -old pivot is in just over 110,000 euros per year in France …
For universities, recruiting on the European market makes it possible to obtain already broken players in high -level, trained basketball and which can bring a big more in the short term. For players, even those who do not target the NBA or who are unlikely to integrate it, it is an attractive financial boost, even for a single year.
-For European clubs, however, it is a huge problem: because they lose players in full development, but also because they do not obtain any compensation.
No financial compensation for European clubs
NCAA is not a federation and not depending on the FIBA, universities have no compensation to pay as part of the arrival of these young players. At best, European clubs will receive compensation when playing players in the FIBA environment. In any case, the “European basketball forum”which brings together 600 actors from the Orange ball world (players, coaches, general managers, presidents, experts, media representatives, etc.) has just sounded alarm, via Sasa Djordjevic.
The “European basketball forum” is thus concerned with “European basketball erosion” through the “Uncontrolled migration of young talents to the USA and the loss of talent at a crucial stage of its development, with a profound impact on the quality of European basketball, in particular the weakening of its national leagues. »»
The group thus proposes a series of measures, in order to impose at least a framework at these departures.
“The forum is not against the fact that the players engage in the NBA or in the NCAA. But given the severity of the situation, he wishes to recall that he maintains that all the transfers and transitions from one league to another are clearly regulated and regulated through international legal frameworks. These can only be affected following the FIBA standards. We call for the establishment of this framework to ensure that each player movement is accompanied by compensation just for all parties involved in the development and training of the player, according to a balanced and fair approach ” Can we read.
