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Message: [QUOTE="Bone Dog, post: 4769071, member: 12088"] I think I like the idea... but I'm not entirely sure. Preparing young women for the pressures of college ball sounds like a good idea. But is it too focused on NIL advising? And what happens if NIL becomes completely different in a few years? And will they encourage these kid to play other sports so they don't become prone to ACL injuries? In other words, preparing kids for D1 WBB may require a different direction than merely pre-professionalism. But one thing I like is the idea of reimagining teen-agers having a more coherent preparation for D1 basketball than just high school coaches and summer leagues. In the long run, say 20 years from now, we may be seeing the seeds of what could become a pre-professional "minor league" for players. Maybe we could begin to imagine an alternative venue for youth athletics than the NCAA. After all, sports and education have never really been a perfect fit, and though NIL addressed some of the inequities from the players' perspective, it did nothing to address the massive distortion of the educational institutions themselves. [/QUOTE]