Hoops

William McDowell-White to Sydney?

I have long held suspicions about the integrity of the NCAA rules. They make a big song and dance about it, but there always seems to be a convenient loophole, or way around something.

Despite all its protestations to the contrary, College sports is a multi-billion dollar industry. It is professional in all but name only. The big name college teams effectively have a bigger budget than some professional leagues.

They want and need the best athletes to come and play in the college system. Last thing they wnat to see is the young stars bypassing their system altogether.

What happened between Blake and Gaze?
The team structures shows signs of falling over and changing once he left..

Have the players had enough of Gaze and Blake was able to highlight it?

Word is $400000 per season for Gaze and $150000 for Lanard.. Massive money..

Thats Murdoch mate

Articles in Murdock press in Sydney and Melbourne say he's going back to college at Nbl seasons end. Promise the exact opposite will happen then. :)

If he was at a prep grad school, he needs to have graduated through there to be eligible for college as that then becomes the stepping stone from high school .
If they don't graduate they are not eligible to apply for college, he can't then go back to his Aussie high school achievements.
Does not matter how good a player he may be the NCAA are very clear on academics.
As a development player in the NBL coming from Queensland to Sydney his expenses probably would have to be covered so again that would make him ineligible for college scholarship.
They can play/train but they cannot be paid nor sign anything but an amateur contract, which means no agent as you said^

Quite a few opinions above on whether William McDW would be able to play NBL for the remainder of this season and then be eligible to head to College in Fall 2017. I do not know anything abut his particular situation other than what has been published on the internet. On what I can see it seems to me that he has a number of issues to consider if he wants to play NCAA next season:

1. Playing on Professional Team - High School graduates can play on a professional team without affecting their eligibility as long as they are not paid above expenses and only play prior to commencing full-time tertiary studies. I believe WMcDW has been at a post-grad Prep school and has not started College so he should be ok on this

2. He cant appoint an agent to represent him and remain amateur

3. Delayed Enrolment - I cant find when/where he graduated High School but if it was Dec 2015 then I would think that he will lose a season of competition due to the delay in attending College

4. Further to above if he plays any organised competition after 1 year after High School graduation or after the time when his high school cohort graduated (whichever is the earliest) then he will also have to redshirt his first year in College

5. The academic issues that prevented him attending Fresno State still need to be addressed - whatever they are - SAT or GPA or Core-courses or graduating HS?

Hopefully is fully aware of his situation and his options for his basketball development and he get on with whatever he wants to do. He looks to be a real talent especially given he is only 18.

Academic eligibility should not be a problem for the vast majority of Aust high school students if managed properly. However the planning needs to start in year 9 and unfortunately there are some players who discover too late (ie yr 11 or 12) that they will not be eligible and the college story ends.

Once you have left college you can't return, even if he's not played, he needed to get his academic up to scratch which is t really that hard as a freshman, so if he's failed that and left then he can kiss any USA college gig away.

Kenyon not going.He was 2016 class.

Is Kenyon going to college?

Where's Fullarton headed?

So he has left Fresno, which means he must have failed school in LA.
So he still ineligible next year.

Paid or sign an agent I think

Angus Glover has hit the court with the Hawks this season and will play at St Marys next season I believe.

I think the rule is that you cant be paid.

I thought you weren't allowed to play with pros at all?

Will he get many minutes?

The press released stated he signed as a development player to keep his college eligibility open for next season and pretty sure if you sign an agent that is deemed as turning pro so unlikely he did.

Who is his agent? Or did he sign with no agent?

Who's ingles13?

^absolutely correct......ego far outweighs ability for many due to those who surround them trying to exoediate a career

Thats disappointing. He should have focused on his academics eligibility instead of listening to people who told he was an NBA prospect.

Wow. Ok. Don't forget everyone still remembers who you are Ingles13.

Maynard.
Good.

Pick one.

FB says "...Development Player for the remainder of the season due to a season-ending injury for Tony Tolovae."

Oh BTW, he is a DP.

Let's hope he can understand the shuffle. ::))

Kings it is.

Steindl is playing in europe, playing well too

What happened to steindl?

That's one thing about Fearney, he gets all the good college Aussies but doesn't know what to do with them.

Steindl
Sobey
Maynard
Young

Off the top of my head.

Academic reasons apparently

It's working for them so far

Adelaide becoming the home for ineligible college players?

Why was he ineligible?

Shane Heal mentioned it this morning on Fox Sports

I'm with you anon, he should end up at adelaide

Betting on Adelaide. Joey and fresno coach are former teammates at Texas and a big reason he was originally committed there.

Obviously he's a good player, but is he NBL level?

Sounds awesome. Any sources on this or are you just hoping that it's gonna happen?

Anyone surprised? Anyone think that he had the goods to begin with.