Mike Krzyzewski: NBA is about marketing and promoting individuals

[zizozain]

live

[Legends66NBA7]

Pretty well known in the basketball community.

[UK2K]

And...?

[zizozain]

And...?
exactly this.

[game3524]

Ok......it has been like that since the 80's, so Coach K is just stating the obvious.

[Real14]

shots fired.

[Eric Cartman]

Groundbreaking stuff.

[Dasher]

So is college basketball. In addition to individual players get marketed and promoted, we get individual coaches being promoted.

[ImKobe]

NCAA - promoting coaches, not paying the talent that draws in all the money, punish athletes for signing autographs for money

Top coaches get same money as NBA coaches and for less work and they have more power over their teams.

[Levity]

good point, coach. :applause:

[Rose'sACL]

NBA still has better team ball than NCAA. What does that say about NCAA? Passing to your teammate is not good team ball.....passing to get a better shot is good team ball.

[julizaver]

It will be good for the game if today star players stay in college at least for 2 or 3 years, instead of just 1 before jumping in NBA at 19-20. Yes they would loose some money, but they would have more time to understand the fundamentals of the game. Not to mention that the years between 18 and 21 are when you shape yourself as an individual and as an athlete. At 21 you are supposed to be at your athletic prime and be more ready for pro-game. Going to NBA at 18-19 and playing a tough 82 schedule under high expectations and big money in the pocket could be detrimental in both physical and psychic aspect. Just some thoughts ...

[hawksdogsbraves]

NCAA - promoting coaches, not paying the talent that draws in all the money, punish athletes for signing autographs for money

Top coaches get same money as NBA coaches and for less work and they have more power over their teams.

Eh idk if it's less work, recruiting is a huge part of college coaching and it requires a lot of effort.

Guys like Pop don't even watch film of the opposing team during the regular season, he just drinks wine at 5 star restaurants after every game.

[sportjames23]

So is college basketball. In addition to individual players get marketed and promoted, we get individual coaches being promoted.


Beat me to it.

[GimmeThat]

He's probably just having the same being accused of drunk driving dreams I've had.

[beastee]

This is precious stuff coming from a dude who IS the brand of NCAA ball that everyone wants to be. What a hypocrite...

I bet he stands for integrity, and teaching life lessons...:roll:

http://coachk.com/wp-content/uploads/book-beyond-basketball.jpg

[oarabbus]

So is college basketball. In addition to individual players get marketed and promoted, we get individual coaches being promoted.


Mostly correct but you got it reversed. NCAA is ALL about the coaches. It's highway robbery those guys get paid obscene amounts of money. While some poor kid from a broke family breaks his leg one day during practice and loses his scholarship and can't afford school any longer.

[Nanners]

funny he would say that, considering that coach k himself is one of the most "promoted individuals" in all of sports, and march madness generates as much ad revenue as the goddamn superbowl.

Coach K gets paid $9.6m per year, which makes him the highest paid coach in all of sports. He makes millions more than Belichick (7.5m), Popovich (6m), Saban (7m)....everyone. This dracula looking mother****er shouldnt be running his mouth about which sports are promoting individuals.

[FLDFSU]

Not any different than the NFL.

95 percent of draft coverage is spent on 2 QBs. Every single year.

In 2011 it was clear that the only QB prospect worth anything was Cam Newton, the media spent so much time talking about that one position, the Jacksonville Jaguars convinced themselves that he was a better pro prospect than Newton.

[Euroleague]

And Team USA isn't?

[RightToCensor]

The NCAA is about marketing and highlighting the big market teams every year.

There's nothing controversial about what Coach K said, it's all true. The NBA is more about me instead of we.

[ImKobe]

Eh idk if it's less work, recruiting is a huge part of college coaching and it requires a lot of effort.

Guys like Pop don't even watch film of the opposing team during the regular season, he just drinks wine at 5 star restaurants after every game.

NBA is 82 regular season games + Playoffs, a lot more traveling, bigger media responsibility.

It's not like coaches just recruit on their own, they have scouts and people that do all the dirty work for them.

Either way, you play ~50 more games a year in the NBA than you do in college, and season lasts 9 months in the NBA vs 6 months in college.

[f0und]

yes its easy for him to say that college is more about the team than star players, when his team is made up of mostly 5 star player recruits.

[SaltyMeatballs]

He's right. NBA is nut riding that bitchboy light-skin ****er, Stephen Curry, right now.

[DonDadda59]

Meh. This is common knowledge. The NBA is big business and marketing is a huge component of that. The NCAA does that too, more so with coaches/programs than individual players since most high draft prospects nowadays are one and dones. But back in the Ewing era, when everyone played 3-4 years in College, guys became synonymous with their team/conference/college ball in general and were heavily marketed (other examples are Christian Laettner, Fab 5, etc).

[Sarcastic]

I'd much rather support the NBA's marketing and promoting of individuals than the NCAA's exploitation of athletes and use of indentured servitude.

[WindmiLL]

Beat me to it.


He didn't beat you to anything. You are the biggest parrot this forum has ever seen...

[sportjames23]

He didn't beat you to anything. You are the biggest parrot this forum has ever seen...


Who the **** are you, bitch?

[warriorfan]

In other news, water is still wet

[T_L_P]

Coach K is a creep, tbh.

[tpols]

The spurs have sorta changed that with their whole 'team' offense.. involving ball movement and the such.. not just one dude dribbling the air out of the ball for 20 seconds and either getting a clear layup lane or hot potato'ing it otherwise..

Warriors have patterned off them as have the hawks.. extensions of the popovich 'team offensive system' empire. And they've got the best records in the league

[gts]

Coach K is dead on

the NBA is a players league, individuals/personalities are heavily marketed over the team.. this site is proof of that, vast majority of player fans over team fans

college is all about the program or the coach that leads that program... with all the top players being one and dones there's no time to generate a solid marketing of an individual and add the fact that college BBall is pretty much a non topic until the tournament rolls around there's really no incentive to highlight a player over the program

obviously there's a kid now and then that generates some national noise for himself in college but that's rare

[wakencdukest]

Coach K was right, even though we don't know the context in which the statement was made. That's just the way it is, the NBA promotes the star player, the NCAA promotes the teams and the tournament.

[PejaTheSerbSnip]

Lol why does he care? Guy makes millions and his minions make zero playing for him.

[gts]

Lol why does he care? Guy makes millions and his minions make zero playing for him.He was answering a question

[dreamwarrior]

Well it is a business first. Which is why Harden is going to win MVP

[PejaTheSerbSnip]

He was answering a question
Oh okay. I concede that I overreacted then.

I'm a little anti-coach K so I just assumed he was being a a d!ck like hes known to be (IMO).