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[QUOTE="Alydar, post: 4320625, member: 730"]
Be careful before calling it the Wild West.  The media doesn't like uncertainty. It makes projecting profits difficult. NIL means less money to ESPN? Oh Boy! So I keep reading all these nightmare "scenarios" where college sports is controlled by cartels of wealthy alumni who ensnare these athletes with huge bribes disguised as "compensation". 
   Compare that to what we have now, where these young athletes (or their advisors) get huge cash payments to come to their school (or the kid signs due to someone's influence).  The net result of the current method is that the kids can now be blackmailed by the bribers, who never seem to get punished when caught. [I] "Do what we say kid or you'll be the next Connie Hawkins" [/I]The extent to which wcbb is a clean sport now is mostly due to it's relative poverty. Very few bookies will take large wagers on wcbb. There's no money in fixing a game for gambling profit.

[I]   [/I]Yeah, I sound a little cynical. I think I'm being real. If wcbb ever rose to the level of popularity/revenue the men have today then the corruption would only get worse.

And for the record, while money also corrupts the quote mentioned earlier was about power.
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