College football programs love to have camps during the summer to recruit the best of the best kids and that is how they due most of their observations on kids they either know about already or do not know about at all. I would be one of those kids that go to the camps to be seen by coaches around the country and some coaches already know about me but it would definetly help my recruiting process out and help me get looked at by coaches so much more because they do not have to go through a bunch of film, they can just watch and see if I am good enough or not in person. I really respect how they run camps and get to evaluate players from everywhere because not every coach you want can watch your film and it helps so much at camps where every coach goes to can actually see you in person. Another big thing camps provide is a chance to actually talk to the coach in person and like get a chance to show who you are as a person and not just a player because many coaches look at you more as a person then a player because character is a big thing and with the camps not happening it is hard on the players because now they do not get a chance to do that. I think the cancelling of these football camps is hard for programs also because they can not make money of the camps and that is very important for them and they can not do that anymore. These are many reasons on why i believe that the closing of football camps is a big deal and a huge reason why this virus is such a big deal and every program is going to have to deal with it.
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Adam Silver is the NBA commissioner and the 5th one ever to have the job in the NBA and he is very good at his job. With this whole virus thing happening he has been taking it so seriously and NBA players respect that. Adam Silver is now taking in consideration of the NBA returning in July sometime and what he did was he went and asked the top players in the NBA to see what there input was in returning to the NBA around July. A lot of the top players like Lebron and Kawai and just those all star players all agreed on returning to the NBA and getting games played in July. It is very late because the playoffs would be going on right now as I type this paper which is crazy especially how late it is. I believe that Adam Silver did the right thing in asking the top players in the league because he knows they are the ones risking there sickness to play games in the NBA and it is there job and is what they do. There will be know fans allowed in the arena during these games I would guess because it is already risky enough for games to start back up but for fans to enter the arena would be a little much and that is where Adam Silver knows the line. Adam Silver is smart at what he does and that is why he is such a liked man around the entire NBA league. He will have his job for awhile because he is a smart man and the decisions he makes for the league only get better. Sometimes he has only made the NBA look better and just run way more smoothly with all the smart decisions he is making for the league.
The Minnesota Vikings had the 22nd pick in the NFL draft and let us just say they picked a good one and this pick was not expected to be there at all. I believe that there pick was the steal of the draft and the biggest surprise in the draft as well. They picked Justin Jefferson a wide receiver from LSU tigers and they were the best team in college football last year by far winning the national championship by a score of 44 to 26 and know one expected it because Clemson was so good and LSU just killed them. LSU's quarterback went number one overall in the draft and Justin Jefferson was his main target by far and he had unreal stats. Jefferson had 1,787 yards and 18 touchdowns and 96 catches which is unreal for a wide receiver at a big time school like LSU. LSU went 14-0 winning every game by a lot and they did it with fashion and it was just unreal how good they were and some say they were the best team in college football ever to play the game. I totally believe that because they just were dominant and each one of there players on the offense of side of the ball went to the NFL and either was drafted which most of them were or they were signed by an NFL team. Jefferson was the 2nd highest picked player coming out of LSU in the first round and he was by far the best wide receiver for the LSU tigers stats wise. I believe that the pick for the VIkings will be unreal and he will replace Diggs and maybe not the first year but the second year I believe he will be better then Diggs was a it is a tough thing to say but it is for sure a possibility with what he did at LSU and all the stats he put up. I believe that Jefferson will put up solid numbers is rookie year and then be explosive his second year in the league and he will be a top ten wide receiver in my mind.
The NCAA players and athletes can now get paid in 2021 and make a profit of their likeliness and how much people respect them as a player. With that being said what everyone else is excited about is the NCAA is coming out with an NCAA college basketball video game. They have not released it or said anything about it but it will be legal in 2021. People have been waiting for this for a long time and now that the NCAA has came out with it or have been processing it is what everyone is excited about. They have made this a rule now do to the fact the so called NBA G league can pay the top prospects in high school and pay them as much as they want and the players that make an NBA G league an option can and will have their school degree right there for them and they have the option to get there degree and get their school stuff done well being paid in the G League which is what a lot of people want for their future. A lot of players I feel like would make the decision to join the G league but many college athletes that are the at the top will have parents wanting them to go to college and go to actual school and have them get their degree well actually being in school. I believe that paying players in college is a great idea and well deserving for college athletes because they are not your typical college student. They miss so much class and some student athletes even do their school work stuff in the summer because that is how much stuff they miss during the actual school year. So I really do like the idea of paying student athletes a lot. The best athletes in each of there sports should get more of a pay raise do to the fact that there getting more attention and all. Also some of these top athletes at the NCAA level get critisized for things they do and those things are what normal college students would do but sense their top athletes they get told differently and that they have higher expectations. Going forward the NCAA needa to make a stand and should not be making profits of the best players and it is only showing up in the amount of players who either by pass college to go to the NBA or go to the G league.
The NFL draft this year will be virtual and online and it is a unfortunate. The players that will be drafted in this years draft will not be able to attend the draft and it is not the best scenario but the players will for sure make the most of it. There will be many cameras in each players house and it will be interesting because there might be some mess ups. In the long run at least the kids get to here there name called. A lot of the the players are still dressing up in suits and so are the families. Jon Gruden will be calling the players who get drafted and he will still be naming off where the players names and what pick and where they get picked. I think the draft will go smoothly in my opinion because of how long they had to set it up and plan it due to the virus. The number one pick in this years draft is Joe Burrow and he will be the first ever draft pick virtually and it is history making. The NFL draft was supposed to be Las Vegas this year and it obviously it was canceled but many fans watched the draft and it was viewed by many people. The NFL draft consists of 200 players and cameras will be in 200 players houses and that is crazy. The one concern I have about the draft is that it will not work for one of the picks. Overall I believe that the draft will be a success because of all the time they had to prepare for the draft and that they have everything planned ahead of time.
Everyone has been wanting a college basketball game to come out that are the real college basketball players in a video game. The last one they made was in 2008 and then they stopped making them for some reason because they believed it was marketing college basketball players and what not and I believe that was just a fake reason because the real NCAA wants to make as much money as possible and they do not get the money that people buy from the NCAA college basketball game itself. The NCAA believes that the college basketball video game will promote players into brands or something along the lines of them getting paid. As we already talked about in one of my other blogs is the last thing the NCAA wants to do is pay college basketball players for some odd reason. The NCAA makes so much money from revenues and tickets from fans and none of it can go to college basketball players which makes no sense at all. My last reason is the NCAA is afraid of exposure towards the players. they believe at a young age that these kids should not get exposed at a young age like that but in reality a lot of them will be in the NBA and have to get used to exposure so I do not see the big deal at all with exposure. That is why I believe having a NCAA college basketball video game will be fun for the fans and honestly even for the players.The cancellation of the NCAA tournament was most likely the biggest cancellation due to the coronavirus because of how popular it was and how so many people watch it. It was such a big thing for the market and how much money was made of the NCAA tournament for both men's and women's. The first part of how heartbroken this was for the players and families that actually took part in the tournament and played in it to make it even going in the first place. These players played all year and put sweat and hard work to get to this point of playing in the tournament and some of those kids dreamed of playing in the tournament when they were kids and when it got canceled they were heartbroken. For the families it must be so sad for a parent to see your kid work so hard and then have it all be canceled in a matter of seconds, just terrible. Another reason of why it was so terrible for it to be canceled was the fans and the tradition it was for them every year to compete in brackets and watch memorable basketball. There are many people around the world including myself that look forward to this tournament every year and it is probably one of the best things I love to do each year involving sports and the fact it got canceled is just a terrible thing to happen and almost not real it feels like. Another thing I have is the players and there future in the NBA or the seniors which could have probably had there last chance to prove to NBA scouts that they are plenty capable of extending there futures in playing in the NBA. That is all I have for this topic and it is for sure the most heartbreaking thing I have wrote about because of how much it meant to me and how much I have looked forward to it all year. The marketing for the NCAA lost so much money also and it will be tough for them to wait a year to get that money back for next NCAA tournament which will take place next year.
Today I will be talking about the coronavirus and how it has affected my life and everyone else's life around and outside of me. The biggest reason to this virus on my life is it changed so many of my plans and I am a 3 sport athlete and I was going to play baseball and track and track was for sure going to help out in basketball and football going into my senior year. That will now not happen because of the virus and it is a bummer but everyone else is obviously has to go through the same thing also. I had trips planned with my family and we were going to go to Arizona and Las Vegas for spring and then one of those trips would have been in the summer but now we do not know if we can go to those places within the next few months. Around the world people have been affected by this disease and it has been killing people mostly old people world wide. We now have this qaratine that where people must be 6 feet apart at all times and that you are not allowed to go anywhere except through drive through to get food and to go grocery shopping. Other then that you are supposed to stay at home and do nothing outside of your house except like take a walk and those types of stuff. Many people have been making so many sacrifices around the world. For example parents have been working at home, kids are doing distance learning from home and doctors around the world can not be around there families near as much because they are extremely busy in helping people that have the virus. I believe this virus is a huge thing in are world and it will be talked about for ages because of how incredible the impact has been on my life and everyone else's life around me and outside of me.
I personally say the greatest moment in sports history is when the Warriors were up 3-1 against the Cavaliers in the 2016 NBA finals and the Cavs came back and won 4-3. Why I say that was insane is because everyone had the Warriors winning and it was not even close. Some people were saying that they were the greatest team of all time and I might agree. I believed they were not going to lose a single game in the NBA playoffs that year. The Warriors were unreal throughout the whole season win 72 games and only losing 9. That is unreal and has hardly been done before. The cavs were obviously good to for even making the NBA championship game but the Warriors could have beat the 4-0. Lebron was unreal in those 3 games they won in a row and he was the MVP of the finals that year. His teammate Kyrie Irving was also unreal helping Lebron out in many ways like getting him the ball and making plays for his teammates in space. Jr Smith was another impact player on the team, he was easily there best shooter from the 3 and was very consistant throughout the entire playoff series which was very impressive. This is my top sports moment ever because it was never supposed to happen and the odds of the Cavs coming back were so bad all gamblers put a ton of money on the Warriors. It was overall and unreal series and know one ever expected it to happen.
Kobe Bryant was one of the greatest basketball players of all time and many people would agree with that statement. People call him the mamba , it is a nickname for him because he is great at everything he does and inspires many people to do what he does outside the game of basketball even. Kobe had a great legacy for the women's game. He supported his daughter Gigi in basketball every game she played and he helped her learn the game as well and Kobe also impacted college women's basketball and he will always be remembered for that also. Kobe went number 13 in the 1996 NBA draft and he went to Lower Merion high school. He was a two time NBA mvp finals winner which is super impressive. He won 5 NBA championships and he was an 18 time all star and 15 time member of the All NBA team which those numbers are unreal and have hardly been done before. Bryant's numbers in his career have always been 24 and 8, he started of being number 8 coming into the league and about halfway into his career he switched from 8 to 24. I believe koby's legacy will go on forever and I don't think anyone will carry the reputation he had but people will most definitely carry on his legacy of what he brought to the game and women's sports throughout his entire NBA career.
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