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Message: [QUOTE="Hunt for 7, post: 5261044, member: 12414"] NIL will change this decision on several levels. I just think a player who still has significant room to develop will get better playing in real games with real fans in college than buried at the end of the bench and getting 4-5 minutes a game. Or playing in G League games in empty arenas with no real passionate fan base. No way the GLeague can replicate the pressure on a player like a conference championship game, an elite 8 with game or final 4 game, not to mention the highly contested games against a conference rival in their gym. My guess it that we are headed in that direction anyway. The experts know that at you cannot truly replicate pressure in empty gyms or practice it is just different. Yes some athletes are born with the clutch gene but you get better under pressure when you have gone through it before. But the experts walk a fine line. They have to be selfish because their commitment is to the team not the player. Someone should put a list of players that went straight from high school to the pros. I bet it is like 50/50 on whether it worked out well. Of course it may have played out that way even if they went to college but when you get to the highest level doing anything you are surrounded by players that all have great talent. Usually what separates the bad from the good and good from the great is what is going on between their ears. I am not in their shoes so it is easier for me to have an opinion. But we do know, what some players can make in college is significantly more than they will make on a two way contract. But if the school and a booster poney up $10M a year for a player to come or stay in school, this gets pretty complicated. Like is the $10M he will get from NIL monies guaranteed even if he get hurt? If the NCAA or whoever is going to oversee college sports does not add structure to this NIL situation some of the best universities will be offering college kids as much money to stay for another year than they will make if they go pro. [/QUOTE]

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