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2 things....
Posted on: March 5, 2018 at 16:24:09 CT
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1. that article states the NBA has decided against academies in the US.
2. Academies work elsewhere because there is a business market for players and academies can self-fund their talent identification and development.
This second point is very important: Academies like Real Madrid and Barcelona exist by identifying and developing talent and then selling that talent on an open market.
Young players sign with the academies that prove they can develop and sell players. Academies choose players whom they identify as having potential.
It's a true open market with teams in different leagues all over Europe buying and selling players.
That market doesn't exist in the US. There is only the NBA. The NBA currently has incentive to allow the college game to develop talent because the college game also provides marketing and branding for incoming talent -- fans of the college game at least follow some players into the NBA and the league, the shoe companies and the players benefits from that.
If you remove the marketing role that the college game currently provides, I'm not sure the shoe companies are even interested in young players anymore.
2. Academies work elsewhere because there is a business market for players and academies can self-fund their talent identification and development.
This second point is very important: Academies like Real Madrid and Barcelona exist by identifying and developing talent and then selling that talent on an open market.
Young players sign with the academies that prove they can develop and sell players. Academies choose players whom they identify as having potential.
It's a true open market with teams in different leagues all over Europe buying and selling players.
That market doesn't exist in the US. There is only the NBA. The NBA currently has incentive to allow the college game to develop talent because the college game also provides marketing and branding for incoming talent -- fans of the college game at least follow some players into the NBA and the league, the shoe companies and the players benefits from that.
If you remove the marketing role that the college game currently provides, I'm not sure the shoe companies are even interested in young players anymore.
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2 things.... - GapDaddy MU - 3/5 16:24:09
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