AJ Dybantsa Prompts Discusssion Over Player Salaries & Dynamics

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00:00To Batsa, you've seen him play 6'9 stretch.

00:04Is it true they're paying that kid over $7 million to play in Provo?

00:08Now my source says it's actually half that.

00:10It's still a lot, obviously, but my source says that those figures are overinflated.

00:17But I do have, again, reservations about that.

00:20Not about AJ.

00:21He's a terrific talent and he'll do his best.

00:24But it's been pretty rare that teams that throw one one-and-done into a mix, and not

00:31a full class of five-star guys like you've seen on occasion, and are seeing right now

00:35at Duke with Cooper Flagg surrounded by five-star guys, or at Kentucky when John Calipari was

00:43there.

00:44It's been really rare that you've had great success with teams that have brought a single

00:49such player into the mix.

00:51And it's pretty common, frankly, that coaches who've done this don't end up being in their

00:58jobs very long after this has happened.

01:01There's a long list of coaches who've tried this and within a few years found out that

01:06it destabilized their program and they're now looking for work.

01:10Mike, I watched Tennessee play Illinois and Champaign and they both shot so poorly that

01:16entire game.

01:18And then, of course, Tennessee end-to-end bucket at the buzzer to win it.

01:22They got lucky.

01:23I still believe, Mike, that Auburn's better than them.

01:25Oh, I don't buy the poll at all.

01:28Look, I really like Tennessee's program and Rick Barnes is one of the really wonderful

01:33men in coaching.

01:35But as with a lot of the teams at Tennessee, this one's offensively challenged.

01:38They are not the best team in the country.

01:40It will be very hard for them to win it.

01:42Auburn is better.

01:44As a college basketball team, I don't think they will win it either, but if you ask me

01:51to take any team to have the best record at the end of the regular season, the number

01:56one overall seed, I'm going with Auburn.