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Message: [QUOTE="Bone Dog, post: 4320334, member: 12088"] I have such mixed feelings about this. I also taught at a school with division 1 sports in SoCal -- in this case, baseball and basketball -- and I could see the abuses and the friction on the teams. But what I mainly saw was the "academic coaches" whose job was to ensure continuing academic eligibility. In other words, their job was to prevent the kids from actually getting an education. Will NIL fix this? Of course not. But the system has always been so tawdry and dishonest that it can hardly make it worse. At least now, the coaches, bookies, and other admins aren't the only ones getting rich off the players' backs. And you even see a few cases where players who may not be exactly great have been clever enough to leverage their "images" to get a piece of the NIL pie. I'm thinking of the Cavinder twins as just one example. I say, more power to them if they've managed to build a following and squeeze some money out of endorsements. Of course, I hope UConn can keep it together during this turbulent period. They lost 3 players to the portal last year, and for all I know it may have some connection to NIL frustrations. When we guess it's about playing time, that might as well be about NIL opportunities as well. Nobody riding the bench gets an endorsement deal. [/QUOTE]