This one doesn't make alot of sense to me. High Point and the Big South are a huge step down. His list of schools that reached out really made me think he was going to a bigger school. He was contacted by:
UCLA
Davidson
WSU
Missouri
Loyola Chicago
ECU
Arizona
High Point takes him closer to home but definitely not where I expected he would end up.
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WTF?
Basically what I said when reading it
Seems like a very odd move on the surface.
Maybe with his remaining eligibility he is betting on having a huge year in the Big South and then having a choice of P4 landing spots next year?
April fools?
Really odd landing spot.
He's from Greensboro so there's connection 1. Also not a poor school, maybe they threw a little NIL plus their coach Alan Huss is very good and maybe he's pitching development and likely NCAA tourney bid
If High Point is offering a bigger bag than VT, we are in big trouble.
Not saying it's what happened, but if it did it would be the inverse of "we got brodie adams because we outNILed USCe"
High Point targets the religious and affluent. They've got deeper pockets than you'd expect. Their campus has been getting a ton of new construction/renovations so once those projects wrap up, expect a large infusion into their athletics pockets.
Their new arena really shows how old Cassell is. https://www.highpoint.edu/arena/
They left an optimistically large amount of room for banners around that top edge
They also don't have football to support I think a lot of these mid-majors that want to play the money game are going to end up doing really well in the revenue sharing era with no other sports to split money between.
This exact issue came up on Domonique Foxworth's podcast this week, about how the Big East is going to have a significant advantage with NIL since they don't have football to support (at least not at the level of Power 4). Georgetown/St Johns / Villanova can put much more $$$ into hoops.
Jay Wright and Danny Hurley are elite coaches. Neither signed a bunch of 5 star one and done types. I think that is much more important than NIL to the Big East schools. Crieighton, Marquette and Xavier can compete with more NIL perhaps- because they also have great coaching. Georgetown is a mess the past decade.
Yeah it was touched on in the TSL podcast that was posted here as well and I think they hit it on the head....that advantage exists for now, the SEC and B1G will certainly figure a way to squash it.
Didn't have that on my bingo card, but I could see him leaning towards a religiously-affiliated school as a Christian. He must have got a decent NIL bag too.
It's pretty clear he chose for location, as he can live where he wants in Greensboro.
The NIL must have been acceptable.
Just saw that the High Point coach Alan Huss is leaving to become the coach-in-waiting at Creighton where he played. Wonder if Jaydon will stick with his commitment? https://myfox8.com/news/north-carolina/high-point/high-point-university-basketball-coach-alan-huss-leaves-after-leading-team-to-historic-ncaa-tournament-entry/amp/