Tyndall to meet with NCAA

Donnie Tyndall will get his day in court:

Tyndall, 44, said late last week that he had not been contacted by the NCAA. However, he will meet with the NCAA on Tuesday and has retained the counsel of Stu Brown out of Ice Miller's Collegiate Sports Practice in Indianapolis.

Retaining counsel is often not a good sign, but it's no indicator of guilt either.  It will be interesting to see where this goes.

h/t ESPN

Bees behaving badly

Georgia Tech gets the dreaded failure to monitor and has its probation extended another two years:

The NCAA said coaches made at least 478 impermissible calls and sent at least 299 impermissible text messages to a total of 140 prospects.

Nothing too scandalous there, but it's always fun when the moral high-grounders downtown get their wrists slapped, isn't it?

h/t ESPN

Dollars and sense

Interesting blog post from Neil Greenberg trying to quantify what a men's basketball player is actually worth to his school.  He readily admits this probably isn't the true fair value, but the goal is simply to find a calculation and see how close it is to the $20,000 over 4 years that an athlete could be paid under the system suggested by Judge Wilken.

Greenberg methodology is simple.  He peeks into a basketball program's revenues and expenses to figure out net revenue.  He then divides that revenue by the team's 2013-14 wins to arrive at a "cost per win" figure.  Finally, he takes each player's Win Shares - as determined by Basketball-Reference.com - and slices up the pie accordingly.

Doing this, he arrives at some fairly eye-popping numbers for guys like Julius Randle ($1,535,888) and Andrew Wiggins($904,205).

So let's run the math for Georgia and see what we come up with.

The most recent numbers I can find on http://ope.ed.gov/ for the University of Georgia are for the 2012-13 season.  The basketball team racked up $5,953,014 in expenses and took in $8,469,928 in revenue.  In 2014 dollars, that equates to a healthy net revenue of $2,575,105.  Georgia won 22 games last season, so assuming a similar revenue figure in 2014, every win was worth about $117,050.

Using the Win Shares totals, we get the following results:

So, are you surprised?

Remember, Georgia isn't even a basketball school, right?

h/t Neil Greenberg

Transfers

This is not Georgia related, necessarily, but Jon Rothstein hits on one of my biggest pet peeves:

5. Will the NCAA officially change the transfer rules prior to the start of fall practice?

I've repeated over the past few years that all transfers need to sit a year if they change schools and don't be surprised if you see that partially come to fruition in some form prior to next season. Multiple sources told CBSSports.com that there was a strong chance that the NCAA was going to pass a rule prior to the start of practice next year that would no longer allow transfers to apply for waivers so they could become immediately eligible without sitting out a full season.

However, it doesn't benefit college basketball to constantly have players changing programs and looking for waivers to be immediately eligible. Let's hope the NCAA gets it right and forces any player who transfers to sit out a year. Sources also told CBSSports.com that the only way a player would likely be immediately eligible was if he graduated and had a fifth year of eligibility. It will be interesting to see how this shakes out.

I could not disagree with Rothstein more.  There are very legitimate reasons a player may want or need to transfer schools, and there are plenty of things that "don't benefit college basketball" a lot more than the transfer rules.

How about we leave it up to the coach and the institution from which the player is transferring?  If the coach will sign off on the transfer, and the school will release the player from his scholarship, let him go.  Would some people try to abuse the system?  Of course.  But that is life.

As an alternative, maybe we make coaches sit out a year if they take another job before completing the terms of their contract?

I kid, of course, but more and more, the NCAA is being exposed as an institution that does not have the players' best interest in mind.

Am I way off base here?

h/t Jon Rothstein