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Message: [QUOTE="Puppy Love, post: 5176013, member: 8101"] I think the real question is whether or not the schools with top coaches are also the ones with the most NIL money. For a very few athletes, college NIL is going to be worth more than they could make in an entire WNBA career. I think most of that money, though, is coming from corporations, and not from the cooperatives. For everybody else, you have to to try to understand why they want to play college basketball. There are some genuine prospects who might one day be good enough, but aren’t good enough now. For them, I think that coaching is going to trump whatever money they could make. Obviously, the prospect of winning the national championship isn’t always the deciding factor either, because otherwise superstars would never choose schools that only have a marginal chance at best. Who knows what really goes on in the mind of a 17 or 18-year-old? Maybe in five years we’ll be able to know what the impact is, but for now I think it’s going to be status quo. [/QUOTE]