Mike Krzyzewski: NBA is about marketing and promoting individuals

[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...

[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 motherf[COLOR="Black"]u[/COLOR]cker 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 [COLOR="Black"]f[/COLOR]uck are you, bitch?

[warriorfan]

In other news, water is still wet

[T_L_P]

Coach K is a creep, tbh.