jadawson said:

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Since he was drafted in 2025 he wasn't draft eligible this year. The team that drafted Phillip last year retains his rights for 2 years for the MLS, which was the Colorado Rapids. He may have foreign options and may want to come back but that is why he wasn't drafted.

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Thanks for the info, I was not aware that the MLS clubs held their rights for 2 years. So if he did come back, he would then be able to sign a Gen Addias contract or be redrafted next year.

Going to be a very interesting offseason.

Redwolf55 said:

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M_A said:

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Redwolf55 said:

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I saw several mock drafts that showed our GK going in the top 15? Is he eligible to come back? Shocking he did not get drafted at all, I wonder what the story is there.

Also hearing that Phillips is coming back and let teams know that was the case. He does have one year left.

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Erb signed a Homegrown deal with Houston before the Draft

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What does that mean on the homegrown deal? I got to think that a top 15'pick would be looking at good money. Signing with a team early?

Sounds crazy you can sign with a team and avoid the draft.

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MLS has a lot of really stupid rules because of the convoluted way they do their roster spots and salary restrictions

HG deals are basically cap exempt and youre allowed extra registration spots for them. It would be like if NC State Basketball had a 5 million dollar salary cap to build a team but they could sign anyone from North Carolina to whatever they wanted and it would only count as $100,000 on the cap

To get an idea of what a MLS roster looks like imagine if this was how Wade had to build his team (with estimates for their actual pay in parentheses)

Darrion Williams - Designated Player - $800,000 (2.5M)
Ven Allen Lubin - Designated Player - $800,000 (1.2M)
Matt Able - Young Designated Player* - $200,000 (800k)
Tre Holloman - Allocated Money - $600,000 (1.2M)
Terrance Arceneaux - Allocated Money - $350,000 (700k)
Paul McNeil - Homegrown Player - $100,000 (500k)
Zymicah Wilkins - Homegrown Player - $100,000 (100k)
Colt Langdon - Youth Initiative* - $50,000 (50k)
Jayme Kontuniemi - Youth Initiative - $50,000 (50k) (International)
Quadir Copeland - $400,000
Alyn Breed - $200,000
Jerry Deng - $200,000
Musa Sagnia - $200,000 (International)
Scottie Ebube - Senior Minimum - $50,000
Jordan Snell - Reserve Minimum - $0

Salary Cap: $4.1M (actual spend - $8.15M)
2 International Slots used

*Young Designated Player instead of another regular Designated opens up Youth Initiative slots that give you more cap exempt slots for young players - in MLS you also get to spend transfer fees on these guys, obviously not applicable to CBB but it'd be like if paying Deron Rippey helped you get a deal on his buddy who was a Top 100 recruit

International slot is its own mess. Nikola Markovic is going to count as an International in MLS even though he's Canadian. You only get 8 International slots (equivalent to like 3 or 4 in CBB) and if you exceed that you have to trade for more from other teams. So like Illinois would have traded for half their teams slots

It's a very dumb way to have to build a team, you can see how for instance VAL and Tre make the same but are categorized differently, those are choices you have to make and sometimes theyre just a matter of timing or how you get the player. Still, most of the league is between $11M and $20M spent this year on a salary "cap" of $6M. A couple others are just above 20 and then Miami is an outlier with Messi and friends and some league bending the rules for them at $37M