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[QUOTE="Fly Rodder, post: 4251790, member: 2133"]
There are womens college basketball players getting multi-million dollar deals and the only published deals with mens basketball players are in the hundreds of thousands to millions for some mid-major players.  If boosters and shoe companies were willing to pay hundreds of thousands [I]under[/I] the table for recruits (a strong-ass offer), they're certainly not backing off now. These quotes are from The Athletic:

Those are for football, but $1-2 million a year for a top-20  basketball team?  Totally within the realm of possibility.

That's one guy on one team.  Even if only the best player on each P5 basketball team gets $100k, that's an easy 30-40 players plus the very best approaching or exceeding 7 figures.  And when kids like Bowen were getting $100k a year as a recruit - not even an established college player like Dickinson or a highly desired transfer like Pack or Omier, the money is going to be huge.

People are vastly underestimating the size of these NIL deals.  It's not Jimmy getting a few thousand to rep a billboard company.  It's top-100 recruits getting a free Mercedes lease, penthouse apartment, and $100k a year from a collective - every year.
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