Dom tweeted that Elle Evans has entered the portal.
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Dom tweeted that Elle Evans has entered the portal.
That really, really sucks
Not that surprised. I had hopes that the NIL money that she was getting from NDSU and the team would keep her in Fargo. I am sure she has something lined up before entering the portal that was too good to pass up.
So what happened between the Minnesota game and today? This is what she said after that game. I don't want to badmouth her, I have no reason to think bad of her, but saying something like this and then entering the portal a few days later is frustrating.
“I’m so proud of everyone on this team and I’m so proud to be a part of NDSU women’s basketball,” Evans said. “I’m so excited for the future because we have such a young group. Just to come back with this young group we have is obviously huge.”
This is all Dave Richman's fault!
Hope Gully got his money back
Well fudge.....:mad:
Hate to hear this, but I cant blame her. She is in a position to make some good NIL money and play a bigger school. Wish her the best.
Dang it, but good luck to her.
This sucks…but not surprised!
A blow to the entire league.
Makes it hard to be fan when our best players leave early.
She was top 5 in 3-point percentage at 45.73% in the entire NCAA - She is going to get some huge NIL offers and go to one of the big-time programs.
And really starting to cause me to reconsider whether my $8000 plus annual donations to TMs and NIL is justifiable to me anymore. I only attend football games (season tickets), so why bother with what I think is a fairly decent monetary contribution to NDSU athletics when this shit is becoming the norm and I can get FB tickets/seats much cheaper. This is getting old in a hurry for me.
It is going to ruin college sports. If anyone heard Tim Miles on KFAN today he described it very well. College athletics right now is like a game of Jenga. Keep knocking out the pieces and eventually the entire thing comes crumbling down. High school sports are next.
Loyalty to one's team is nonexistent.
This really hurts, still plenty there for next year. But this hurts.. good luck to Elle .
She is probably going closer to her hometown area of St. Louis. The Bison scrimmaged with Kansas, played Drake, played Creighton, played Iowa State (who has lost a bunch of players), played Minnesota and her athleticism and length stands out and is quite obvious. I'm not exactly sure why she was lightly recruited out of high school.
I'm going to miss her and wish her well.
It means Avery Koenen will need to put in the work and develop the outside game so she can up her game.
Jory seems to be a great recruiter and he seems to be recruiting tall, long and athletic players. Let's go Bison!
Such a depressing event for wbball here at NDSU to hear this. I suggest that the NCAA allow contracts for players in the future so coaches dont go crazy from all of these losses of good players. More rules for NIL and scholarships need to happen very soon, not sure what the real answer will be for mid majors. Contribute big to our NIL fund and survive for another year or fold and go home is the way it is now. We supported them in a big way the last part of this season, I feel shot at and missed, shit at and hit by this transfer. Farmers should sit on their crops until people are starving and then get $50 a bushel for wheat, same kind of deal IMO. Money doesnt buy happiness but will by a new $1.2 million dollar combine to harvest 6 dollar wheat, make sense?
I was trying to brain strom ideas.
We gotta get it like Soccer where the new school has to pay a transfer fee to us player movement upwards. Can we contract with Big Ten that they get first dibbs on our player transfers in future for sum of dollars? If we are going to be development league for bigger teams - we might as well get compensated for it.
At a minimum all NIL money should get clawed back if transferring while still an undergrad. They’re leaving for more NIL money, so not like they can’t afford to make our boosters whole again.
Also the easiest way to “charge” the boosters of the other school for scooping up our player. Very similar to what happens with coaches.
I used to think the rule requiring transfers to sit out a year was a stupid rule. Maybe exactly what is needed and/or a buyout paid by the new school.
Players have been recognized by the courts so the one year out deal is out the window. I like the pay back of NIL theory. We need some schools to drop a sport or 2 after the portal closes to shake the hell out of brazen 19 year olds who are too immature to earn 500k bouncing a ball. Drop a sport after the portal is closed so they are ditched for a while. But then sadly see them go to court and defeat a university established 150 years ago.
College Sports is dead at the mid major level. The word legacy is no longer important
Those who stay ain't getting paid eh.
Need to start requiring players to sign contracts now with buyout clauses. It's pro sports league at this point gotta use the same methods as the pros.
At a minimum the receiving school should have to pay the original school the scholarship money paid to the athlete, the original costs with recruiting that athlete, and a significant fee for the development of that athlete. The one exception I’d make is if the athlete has graduated and is moving on to grad school but still has eligibility.
If I was a hiring business owner and a college graduate who had been a student/athlete and gone through the portal to switch schools applied for a job with my business I’d have serious reservations about hiring that person as he/she has demonstrated a lack of loyalty and commitment.
Can someone explain why I should give more to our NIL fund at this time?? Until we can see players signing contracts and have free agency compensation from P5/6 conference teams why throw it down a rat hole.
Alright, I'll be the devil's advocate. I'm no fan of this transfer portal stuff either but the level of whining about it is getting ridiculous too. These are people not property - if they have a monetizable skill they should be free to leverage that in whatever (legal) way they'd like to maximize it just like the rest of us are. The compensation they are given in terms of scholarships and NIL money isn't something they continue to collect from the school they're leaving if they transfer out and if they committed themselves while they were there I see no reason to punish them for leaving (which is what requiring the school they're transferring to compensate the school they're transferring from would result in).
Everyone is free to spend their money how they want to but ask yourself are you supporting the school on the front of the jerseys or the names on the back of them (humor me and assume NDSU had names on the backs of jerseys)? As long as the athletes representing NDSU continue to do an exemplary job of that I have no issues if those athletes are changing year after year. This is the how the college game works these days - as a university that is nowhere near the top of the pecking order in terms of support but also nowhere near the bottom you can either embrace that and take advantage of it or you can whither on the vine trying to keep doing things the old way. You can also hope that the NCAA or congress does something to regulate it but you can hope in one hand and crap in the other....