Unbelievable:Duke G Cooper Flagg set part ways, departure and decommit from duke Men basketball due
Unbelievable:Duke G Cooper Flagg set part ways, departure and decommit from duke Men basketball due to…
Duke G Cooper Flagg “has been so hyped” that he could “help keep a whole sport from drifting into relative obscurity,” according to Jesse Dougherty of the WASHINGTON POST. He noted it “has been years since” a men’s college basketball player like Flagg has come around. Sports television consultant and former CBS Sports President Neal Pilson said, “If the men’s game needed an answer to the Caitlin Clark boom, you can’t ask for better than that.” Dougherty:
“The question, then, is whether the men’s game did need that answer.” Even in its post-Clark era, Dougherty wrote there are “inarguably more superstars in women’s college hoops.” UConn G Paige Bueckers is “as famous as any other college athlete” while USC G JuJu Watkins recently signed a multiyear extension with Nike.
Flagg, an “internet obsession,” has NIL deals from New Balance and Gatorade. Dougherty noted Jack Adler and his NIL marketing company, Out2Win, have an “algorithm that distills an athlete’s social media influence into a catchall metric.” Flagg has the “highest score of all men’s basketball players, thanks in large part
