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Message: [QUOTE="SubbaBub, post: 4154220, member: 523"] For athletes, sports has become a defacto part of their education and is now inseparable from what we used to assume was the mission of higher education. Kids pick schools because of their athletic opportunities. While we at some level all assumed this was the case for the elite recruits, the NIL movement has dismissed any notion that it is limited to just the top guys. You've already had Wyoming making it clear they are going to pay, ahem, find NIL opportunities for FB players that want to come there. Oklahoma just acknowledged that they are looking to raise funds in the event they can make a counteroffer to keep their star QB. I agree with BL that this is the new normal, but that doesn't mean there can't be rules put in place to put a cost on these types of decisions. Covid is fueling this year's frenzy, but the going back to losing a year of eligibility to transfer is a perfectly acceptable compromise. Reforming the recruiting calendar can also help. Create a separate NLI date for transfers. Whether you let freshmen commit first or transfers is up to them. I believe the market will also settle things down after enough players find the portal to be a dry hole, even ending many careers. The NIL money will consolidate at the top to where the lesser schools will all be working with about the same pot of money. If some whale wants to fund the University of Delaware or Jackson State, I doubt that will make many waves. More likely is that the rotation at the top of the food chain will accelerate. Players will start to expect the money to keep rolling in and will raise hell when their deal gets pulled for some new recruit. Those teams will have trouble winning consistently. It's just another variable that will separate coaches and schools. UConn needs to get the law changed to allow the school to help their athletes with NIL deals. [/QUOTE]

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