Jay Williams, Ryen Russillo debate NCAA basketball policy and rules changes | Get Up! | ESPN

Jay Williams joins Get Up! and debates Ryen Russillo on the new changes that the NCAA recently made to allow players to have agents and go back to school after not being drafted.
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Who is here after the bill simmons podcast today?

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YUP glad I finally found the clip

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Yessir!

[@gunkanjima3408]

Russillo is the only one not living in la la land.

[@rashardstallworth9240]

Ethnicity and economics is the whole reason why we even have this debate. You can be drafted interprofessional baseball why are you are in high school or while you're in college and you can decide that you want to stay in college because you don't like the team that drafted you or where you were drafted at. But if you it drafted into professional football or into the NBA while you're still in college you can no longer play college sports. Basketball and football are dominated by African American kids. That's the only reason why the rules are different. A kid can get paid to play the piano at a wedding and still have a scholarship to go to college for music but if that same kid get some money to play basketball or football he loses his eligibility to participate in college athletics. Why certain sports are dominated by one ethnic group and certain sports are dominated by another ethnic group. And it all comes down to ethnicity and economics.

[@lorddiethorn]

In baseball you don’t sign the contract

[@geoffbieber5640]

Exactly Cullen...... people that want to continuously lob the race card out there forget that one huge piece of the puzzle, nevermind the fact that the sports are completely different from one another.

[@lorenzomorganjr.6585]

Probably one of the best segments (I seen and listen to [to date]) from ESPN.

[@lorenzomorganjr.6585]

"FOR-REAL"!

[@kyosukedeiknives]

I mean its stuipid cause any normal College student who doens't play sports can get a part-time job and make $$$ to pay for stuff... but an athlete is just screwed?

[@lorddiethorn]

They can have a part time job Kyle Murray can I play pro baseball if you chose not to enter the Nfl draft

[@andrewadmire3104]

Hey no offense but you’re an idiot. You’re the problem when it comes to these arguments because you have no idea what you’re talking about.

[@lorenzomorganjr.6585]

"Are players in high revenue sports (in college), are they or are they not employees of the university?" (That's a good darn question -- for clarification purposes!)

[@lorddiethorn]

No been that way since the 54

[@augustuswetzel]

Kids in the MLB have been returning to college if they didn’t like the spot they were drafted in forever. No different for basketball

[@rashardstallworth9240]

There's a reason why they're not having this discussion about kids that are drafted in professional baseball but decide they don't like the team where they were drafted at so they stay in college. The kids who dominate baseball in this country look a little different than the kids who dominate basketball and football in this country that's why the rules are different

[@basedstatement1579]

Rashard Stallworth fat unathletic white guys with smoking/drinking problems

[@lorddiethorn]

Nope it’s because in baseball you don’t sign a contract therefore you can play college ball and they have to wait three years if they go to a 4 year school most go to a two year school

[@roryshipowick3827]

Thank God they put Ryen on this panel, someone who isn’t a complete pc hack

[@desmondjohnson4686]

Don't baseball kids get drafted and if they don't like where they were drafted can go to school

[@seangaines5863]

Desmond Johnson there are way more rounds and players that get drafted so it is different

[@desmondjohnson4686]

Sean Gaines what does the rounds matter those kids still have option to go to school or go pro no matter if they get drafted first round or the last you could put the same system at play for the basketball as baseball

[@marcush.1227]

It just makes sense to pay the athletes. If you pay them then there’s an incentive for them to stay the full four years. Which means that they can get paid the entire as well as the college making money off of them. It’s a win win. The athlete gets paid and more experience and the college can sell more jerseys and tickets. Instead you get athletes who may not be ready for the pros but choose to go instead because they want the payday. Then their talent can be wasted by never being fully developed. It just doesn’t make sense imo.

[@dektran4843]

usa/nba basketball academies is my idea

[@CkbetterTV]

that one is fantastic

[@tigerhoods7927]

This is a jay Williams topic

[@IamTroyEl]

JBA will welcome ballers!! Lavar Ball has the new wave!!!!! BBB

[@dektran4843]

i think that i football and basketball programs should 100% of the money that they earn and stop redistributing they money those two programs earn.

[@pogfee]

They are going to have to overturn title IX first

[@lorddiethorn]

Which will never happen

[@HNICB1GM1K3]

im sorry my man tried to defend the ncaa and the old ways. and he failed....

[@keefdavis244]

unbelievable.

[@bdix42]

I didn’t hear anyone defend the NCAA.

[@superduperhotrod365]

Brian Dixon what were you watching? Ryan Russo was justifying it

[@samkayser5837]

Russillo right, per usual

[@TheKingJason3]

Lavar Ball pressured the NCAA the same way Trump is pressuring the NFL. By the way if you haven't watched "Ball in the Family" go watch it, it's really good.

[@keefdavis244]

All it's going to take is the next "ZionWilliams" to sign with JBA. Then NCAA & NBA will change the ru

[@coreysoze7556]

High schoolers with agents will have padded classroom stats to make the pros.

[@keefdavis244]

Lavar Ball is making them do what's RIGHT.

[@TwoShea]

Didnt Russillo get arrested for drunkenly stalking a woman? Why do I still have to see him on TV

[@ghostofkenny]

i have no idea whether or not that's true, but he completely gives off the vibe of the kind of guy who would drunkenly stalk a woman.

[@geoffbieber5640]

No that's not what happened at all and you watch him because he's one of the only common sense sports opinion people out there.

[@dariusmaye]

Why not make so 1&dones don’t get to come back. If you stay two or more years you get to come back if not drafted or don’t like the spot your in. Paying the athletes should also be an option, I wonder if paying the players but you have to stay longer than a year would be agreeable? Also, will these changes be brought over to the football side?

[@keefdavis244]

JBA is going to make all that irrelevant.

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Jay Williams talks like he wants to be informed

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First

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EVERYTHING ! ! Because most people watch it on TV.

[@pogfee]

College athletes better be careful fighting to be considered employees of the university. They will start having to pay taxes on their income on top of the value of their scholarship (average scholarship worth approximately $40,000 per year). The school will also be able to fire them for poor on-field(court) performance. For the top 1% of college athletes, this will not be a big deal but for lesser paid "employees", this could hurt

[@augustuswetzel]

University employees get 10 free hours of college tuition per semester at Ohio state

[@edged1001]

College players (employees) can be fired (scholarships removed) for poor performance on the court or the field. The NCAA practices a form of socialism. For the administrators and coaches free market/capitalism allows them the ability to command million dollar salaries. For the athletes (employees) the spirit of amateurism conveniently allows the NCAA the right to limit their compensation regardless of their individual performance

[@keefdavis244]

Geoff, TAXED ENOUGH ALREADY. That's reverse-teabagism.

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Jay Williams always slurping somebody

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I wish Jay Williams would not be in the air

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wtf! Can Jay Williams fly?