Golden State Warriors star Stephen Curry has accepted a role with his alma mater Davidson College as an assistant general manager for the basketball programs, university officials told ESPN.
Curry becomes the first active player in U.S. major professional sports to take an administrative job with an NCAA team.
In his new role, Curry, who played three seasons at Davidson (2006-09), will provide guidance to the men's and women's teams based on his college and professional experience.
He'll work with general manager Austin Buntz, a former Under Armour global sports marketing team member. Curry first signed with Under Armour in 2013 and launched his own Curry Brand as a standalone venture with the company in 2020. He also signed a lifetime contract shoe deal in recent years.
Once again, fuck you Seth.
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So Davidson has a basketball GM, at least two assistant GMs (one by Curry) and Curry with several others are starting an 8-figure fund for both men's and women's basketball. Should be able to buy any team they want.
Yep about to put everyone behind the eight ball
Wonder if some of the legacy programs will revive themselves with this blueprint. Could be interesting to see smaller programs rise again. Maybe.
You're going to see this across all college sports. Just look at what Wake's done with their tennis team, what Nebraska has done with Volleyball, what BYU is doing with Gymnastics, etc.
Not everyone can compete in football. No school – not even Ohio State – can pay competitively in every single sport. We're gonna see schools strategically pick the sports that they can separate in.
Personally, as a big tennis fan, I can honestly say that NIL has been better for college tennis, better for American college tennis players and recruits, and better for the professional game... But that's getting way off topic
We just need to make sure college tennis players get their millions. That's all that is important- college athlete bags of cash.
You clearly know nothing about college tennis, the open/ITA/future/challenger tours, or the ATP/WTA.
10 years ago, kids were often deciding whether they should go pro around 15 years old. Now they can (a) delay that decision until later (see how their body grows, etc), (b) they're getting better training for less out-of-their-pocket money, and (c) they're getting paid.
An unintended byproduct of good American tennis players going to college instead of playing lower level pro-tournaments/teams abroad is that foreigners (who have significant hurdles to earning NIL) are staying away from college. This has in turn opened up more roster spots for Americans who in past decades would have played at non-scholarship universities or not played college tennis at all.
Finally, funding for player development has (slightly) shift away from the USTA (which, IMO, is really good at evangelizing/spreading the game of tennis but not so good at elite player development) to university boosters.
At the pro level, we're starting to see college tennis alumni making a noticable difference on tour for the first time in ages. From the 60's through the 2010's, the only notable college players on tour were McEnroe, James Blake, and John Isner. Now, you have Ben Shelton, Camron Norrie, JJ Wolf, Arthur Rinderknech, Danielle Collins, Emma Navaro, etc all making NOISE (yes, I know Norrie and Rinderknech aren't American).
I know you hate the idea of college students getting money, and I'm not saying NIL is perfect, but for Tennis (which I'm sure you don't care about) it has been a win-win-win-win: It's a win for players, it's a win for NCAA tennis, it's a win for American Tennis, and it's a win for the pro tours.
"foreigners (who have significant hurdles to earning NIL) are staying away from college."- why? because they want to earn a living in the sport, I assume? smart plan. I know you think colleges exist to provide paid opportunities for tennis players, but that is not their mission. The foreign players who went pro- because they wanted money are the smart ones. I do know that the VT tennis teams do not generate revenue or have legit NIL opportunities through commercials, radio spots, signature shoe sales. So it's the foreign players that realized its not their birth right to take donations from middle class fans as income vs. earning it on the pro tours. Good on them- they get it.
Especially since Davidson basketball is more important to alums an boosters than anything else in their lives. Not surprising since the stock market is doing so well, etc. Everyone has 6-7 figures to donate to Davidson basketball. I wish VT could have access to that old Charlotte NC tobacco money.
It ain't tobacco money, hoss. It's new investment banking, entrepreneur, white collar money going to Davidson athletics. The old money in Davidson goes towards academics and the arts and historical preservation.
"It's new investment banking, entrepreneur, white collar money going to Davidson"- apparently we don't have any of that either.
If this eye roll is at Davidson fucking hoops raising 8 figure NIL war chest while we give a 2% bump to our Wrestling coach and won't pay Sean Pedulla, I can't help you.
As Curry trolls college basketball.
Somebody get NAW on the phone, stat!
Who did we take instead of Curry? Nigel Munson? how is he doing? Does he have a huge global shoe brand and multiple NBA MVPS?
Counterpoint: Steph Curry maybe would have never become what he is today if he had been gifted a scholarship to an ACC school based on who is dad is.
He was skilled out of HS, but undersized (he even acknowledges that he was a late bloomer, physically). He was maybe 6' by the time he finished HS. It's not like any other P5 program was after him. His HS coaching talking about ordering uniforms:
Hot take: Greenberg made the right call with the information he had in front of him, without the benefit of hindsight
"Greenberg made the right call with the information he had in front of him"- hard disagree- he was coach of a team that was on the fringes of the NIT- not Duke. He couldn't buy a ticket to the NCAAs. So your damn right you take Dell's kid who could clearly shoot a fucking basketball. What have you got to lose? your NIT home game? Fuck VT hoops being too big a program for ANYONE at any point really. How about this year? can't take a chance on someone? Have to take Severn? come the fuck on. If we were Duke, I'm buying it. We were an NIT program that took a hard line on Dell's kid. Fucking morons.
Again, we're not just talking about the almighty Dukes and the lowly NIT VT's of college basketball - we're talking every single P5 team in the nation who looked at him said "nah, we're good". A lot likely didn't even look at him before passing on him. Most ACC schools weren't even interested in a walk-on role for him.
His choices were literally Davidson, VCU, and Winthrop. There was zero indication he would become the player he did, and again, at VT maybe he doesn't even become that player, 6' tall and 160lbs was going to take a beating in the ACC or B1G - at the time, before he finished growing he was built for a mid-major.
"every single P5 team in the nation who looked at him said "nah, we're good"... This isn't football. Gonzaga and VCU would whip our ass in hoops most years. I watched Dayton destroy Young's best team in Hawaii- total domination. BYU destroyed us the next night. We would get dusted by St. Mary's 12 of the last 15 seasons at least. The gap between Davidson and VT hoops has never been that big the past 30 years. In fact Davidson has had better teams than VT in that time period multiple years. We hired Wofford's coach and brought 3 of his players in and actual won the ACC tourney. It's not football. We gave a scholarship to Severn who can't play dead in a western. The examples are numerous. We have given many scholarships to marginal players, but the one we chose a hard line on was the son of our best player ever. For fun, he turned out to be the greatest shooter in NBA history. It's not justifiable or logical on any level.
Look dawg, my only point was that while Greeberg had several faults - offering a walk-on spot and a redshirt year to a 6'0", 150lb kid that can shoot (which was as good or better of an offer than he got from 99% of D-1 schools), was not one of those faults.
Anyone that is still raging about it (while beating the fuck out of a horse that's been dead for 15 years) is basically saying, "yeah of course I recognize basketball talent better than every coach and recruiting expert that existed in 2006".
Coaches from Davidson, Winthrop and VCU should be enshrined in the HOF for being the only three D-1 coaches possessing the foresight to offer Steph a scholarship.
Pry just gave a scholarship to 100% NOT a D1 player... why? His brother is on the team.
Edit: never mind
Get over it
110 roster spots with many players never intended to see the field is a much different thing to take up a roster spot on a special case.
Hey, he's arguing from 20/20 hindsight. You cannot win against that kind of hindsight.
don't tell me who I can or cannot argue with, you're not my supervisor
had to look twice to make sure DC didn't post this comment
You're correct. No ACC team gave him a scholarship (or even a walk-on opportunity).
If would have been great if Steph accepted the walk-on spot (especially considering he's the son of a multi-millionaire athlete, his parents could afford one year of tuition), but c'est la vie.
Apparently the family is still VT football fans. Would love to see Steph on Gameday in Blacksburg when he retires...but considering the trajectory of our football team, I don't think we're going to be on Gameday anytime soon.
If Whit wanted to grab some low hanging fruit, he should set up honorary degrees for Steph, Seth and Sydel.
Not even just no ACC team - no teams in the country outside of Davidson, Winthrop and VCU gave him a scholarship opportunity. To claim Greenberg should have seen what no one else did, and to actually still be pissed about it almost 20 years later is just laughably absurd
To claim Greenberg's scouting is fullproof the other way is equally absurd if not more so. He made 1 fucking NCAA tournaments here but we can't dare question his player scouting. Afterall, Coach K didn't offer Curry either. lmfao.
I have never in the almost 20 years see anyone claim that his scouting was foolproof. Have you?
It did always seems Fullproof...as in Greenberg was drinking Everclear to develop his recruiting strategy.
I have a similar theory about Steph.
He never would have achieved greatness had he come to Virginia Tech. He would have been good, but I dont think he would be who he is without Davidson.
Compare him to JJ Redick. Another generational shooter from this area. He was the focal point for Duke but never achieved greatness (as a player) in the NBA. At Duke he scored, but didnt have to create his own offensive. My theory is that Steph developed his creative offensive genius, which is what makes him great, because he was allowed to develop that at Davidson. I doubt that would have happened at VT.
I'm with you. I also think the chip on his shoulder really pushed him to perfect his shot and prove everyone wrong. I don't think he gets that edge if he walks on at VT simply due to his last name.
If I remember correctly, Steph said essentially that when asked on that episode of Hot Ones he did. If the man himself says I wouldn't be as good if I had gone to an ACC school that wouldn't have allowed him to play through his freshman year struggles, you have to go with it.
Hard agree. Does practice squad player steph curry develop his skills and break out the way he did playing 34 games at Davidson?
No way to answer that question, but it would have been nice to have had the opportunity to find out, right?
Yup. Tough to do a double blind study.
Shaq named GM of Sacramento State basketball
Yeah, but this is a volunteer position for Shaq, and his kid is on the team. I don't think he's going to actually be a GM. Probably more akin too an outside consultant of some sort.
But I will say, as someone who was a fan of the NBA in the late 90s and early 2000, the idea of a college basketball team being led by Shaquille O'Neal and Mike Bibby is pretty fucking awesome
Davidson college's (all 1900 total students of them) hoops team has been grossly underpaid for decades. This small private college exists to have a pro basketball team, and now they are finally getting their entitlement money.
We're talking about Sac State? What?
The title of this thread is Steph Curry donates millions to pound his chest for beating dayton... sort of...
I think he means ("insert college name here"), and apply universally.
What's MV and Kam Chancellor and D Hall doing? I assume Bruce Smith helps some in NIL stuff since he's around the program the entire fall but he is aging, still a legend. need to get them in the boat for raising NIL money for the foosball.
Those guys are "rich" what WE need is someone truly "wealthy"- with millions to light on fire to pay players that will leave as soon as they are good. We need someone connected to a major business or family money, etc. Not rich, but truly wealthy.
We need some one that has enough money to pay Kirby Smart to not coach.
Agreed....I just don't know any of those alumni from VT. If it was me I'd gladly donate.
Learned this from a 247 poster today:
2 of the top 3 rated basketball recruits in the country for 2027 had parents play basketball at VT.
Would be nice to have a Steph curry on our side to do some persuading
0% chance we get them unless there's a coaching change with a truly elite coach (e.g. Jay Wright)
Somewhat related, Cameron Brink's mother was a Hokie and didn't even consider us with Liz and Georgia already on the roster.
Neither Cameron nor Liz get the accolades they have if they were splitting time
They would have complemented each other well. Brink's game is pseudo-Scottie Pippen - elite defensive player, high IQ, playmaker and versatile. Liz is more Tim Duncan - dominate post-scorer / rebounder.
They wouldn't have split time - Kitley at the 5, Brink at the 4 makes a ton of sense. Only problem was Brink wasn't a great outside shooter so spacing would be an issue.
We would have a national championship with a Brink, Georgia and Liz core, assuming perfect health.
Good point. Sadly all 3 have torn ACLs in the last year or so