[jacket3ree]

Kaitlin Clark's WNBA salary is only going to be $76,000.

https://www.wsj.com/sports/basketball/ca...r-9881ecdd

If that is accurate, Iriafen has every reason to go to graduate school and take advantage of NIL.  Even though she would continue to be able to make money off of endorsement deals if she goes to the WNBA, those would actually be endorsement deals, and will not be underwritten by wealthy donors, and the actual WNBA salary would be a rounding error.  So, Iriafen might make nearly as much (maybe even more) as a college player as in the WNBA.

BC

It is indeed accurate. She will make in her four year initial contract $338K, less than half of the $750K Iriafen supposedly will make for one year at school X. I am of course certain that none of that money distorted the acceptance process at school X, and similarly have not and will not result in her receiving atypical benefits.

That's an interesting economic question. Will Clark's or Reese's or Brink's or anyone's endorsement deals suffer because they are in the WNBA instead of at Iowa, LSU, or Stanford? There is no salary at Iowa, so Clark should be slightly wealthier in the WNBA than she would have by staying one more year at Iowa. Iriafen isn't yet 22 so she didn't have the same choice.

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Boy, somebody picked the wrong screen name.

Hey, I played professionally in Europe, was a 2 time NBA champion, and an Olympic gold medalist long before I was a Senator :>

IMO, it's extremely unlikely that the real Bill Bradley would share your stated point of view about college/university education, the portal, and NIL contracts.

Given that he was the #1 overall HS recruit and turned down 75 scholarship offers to go to Princeton, I would concur with your assessment. And when he played the single year in Europe, he was attending Oxford...

That other Bill Bradley thinks advertising one's image is stupid, so yes, he wants today's college athletes off his lawn.

Pretty clear cut about it in the Princeton Alumni Weekly:

Bill Speaks His Mind

[jacket3ree]

Kaitlin Clark's WNBA salary is only going to be $76,000.

https://www.wsj.com/sports/basketball/ca...r-9881ecdd

If that is accurate, Iriafen has every reason to go to graduate school and take advantage of NIL.  Even though she would continue to be able to make money off of endorsement deals if she goes to the WNBA, those would actually be endorsement deals, and will not be underwritten by wealthy donors, and the actual WNBA salary would be a rounding error.  So, Iriafen might make nearly as much (maybe even more) as a college player as in the WNBA.

BC

It is indeed accurate. She will make in her four year initial contract $338K, less than half of the $750K Iriafen supposedly will make for one year at school X. I am of course certain that none of that money distorted the acceptance process at school X, and similarly have not and will not result in her receiving atypical benefits.

That's an interesting economic question. Will Clark's or Reese's or Brink's or anyone's endorsement deals suffer because they are in the WNBA instead of at Iowa, LSU, or Stanford? There is no salary at Iowa, so Clark should be slightly wealthier in the WNBA than she would have by staying one more year at Iowa. Iriafen isn't yet 22 so she didn't have the same choice.

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Boy, somebody picked the wrong screen name.

Hey, I played professionally in Europe, was a 2 time NBA champion, and an Olympic gold medalist long before I was a Senator :>

IMO, it's extremely unlikely that the real Bill Bradley would share your stated point of view about college/university education, the portal, and NIL contracts.

Given that he was the #1 overall HS recruit and turned down 75 scholarship offers to go to Princeton, I would concur with your assessment. And when he played the single year in Europe, he was attending Oxford...

That other Bill Bradley thinks advertising one's image is stupid, so yes, he wants today's college athletes off his lawn.

Pretty clear cut about it in the Princeton Alumni Weekly:

Bill Speaks His Mind