Who Should Minnesota Teams declare Bird Rights on
According the Sports Business Journal, the Big Ten is discussing a carve out to the current revenue sharing cap to allow schools that exceed it to retain players. From SBJ, the proposal mirrors the NBA “Bird rights” the salary cap exception in the NBA’s collective bargaining agreement (CBA) that allows teams to re-sign their own […]
Feb 2, 2025; Los Angeles, California, USA; Minnesota Golden Gophers guard Tori McKinney (14) shoots over UCLA Bruins guard Kiki Rice (1) during the first quarter at Pauley Pavilion presented by Wescom. Mandatory Credit: Robert Hanashiro-Imagn Images | Robert Hanashiro-Imagn Images According the Sports Business Journal , the Big Ten is discussing a carve out to the current revenue sharing cap to allow schools that exceed it to retain players. From SBJ, the proposal mirrors the NBA “Bird rights” the salary cap exception in the NBA’s collective bargaining agreement (CBA) that allows teams to re-sign their own free agents even if they are over the salary cap.
Presumably the reasoning is the same as in the NBA: let schools maintain roster continuity without penalties for exceeding the cap. Because we are starting to enter the fun season of transfer portal madness for the Winter sports, I thought deeply about this (5. 5 seconds) on the following prompt: “Who should the Gophers declare Bird Rights on for each of the main revenue sports?
” This means practically football, basketball, and hockey. Sorry to all the other sports. It’s not that you’re not amazing.
I just don’t have a clue how much money you’re going to get. Folks sound off in the comments here if you have strong opinions on Men’s golf. Football My pick here, which will shock absolutely no one who has listened to me talk about the current state of the football program is KFB.