They operate with personal services contracts as 1099 contract employees of the Collective. So such a provision could easily be put in the contract.
Batenhorst actually has a good NIL deal. Did you see her full size cutout in the airport before the season?
Played with heart and effort. And together. Those things can be controlled. We have some obvious weaknesses and aren't very healthy across the board, but the frustration with the other night was more with heart, effort and teamwork then how good we ultimately are.
Blaming it on NIL is a lame excuse. Our guys are all getting paid well. The rest of your points are accurate. We can compete in NIL and do. Need a coach who will run a program year round rather than just diagram plays
With Griesel and Walker went the culture and locker room. This year’s guys have no fire (if u doubt that replay it and see the level of energy on the bench on the few occasions we made a shot in the second half). And don’t really seem to like each other. Saw that even when we were beating the humpties on the schedule. Need something from the head guy but he’s too busy diagramming plays to notice, and more engaged with the Firethorn member-guest
Tonight was worse. Lost to a bad team whose best player by far played 3 minutes. Inexcusable. No effort the second half. Lost virtually every 50/50 ball. Played no defense. Turned it over with lazy passes and ball handling. No rebounding at all. I can handle bad, I can’t handle lack of heart and effort. Especially coming off an embarrassing home loss.
Reminded me of an Izzo, Self, Coach K, Roy Williams kind of game. Where working the refs after every call works. Wonder if any crew will ever have the guts to stand up to it? Certainly by rewarding it, they encourage it.