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Message: [QUOTE="Jake, post: 4271213, member: 86"] Okay….here’s a fun challenge. Rank the guys you think would have made the most money relative to their era if NIL had been around. Let’s do players after 1980….and let’s do a top 10. Here’s mine: 1) Pearl. He had three marketable years. Would have arrived with an NIL deal and would have absolutely made an insane relative amount of money. I think the gap between him and everyone else is ginormous. 2) Billy Owens. The overall #1 player who was on the cover of SI before he stepped foot on campus. Again Three full years to collect and be promoted. 3) GMAC. Probably the most popular player ever for four years. Tons of game winners and could had had NIL deals in two different cities at the same time. Imagine the fishing gear deals (lol)! 4) Moten. Great kid, great personality and the face of the team for four years essentially. 5) Hakim. Great kid. Great personality. Great smile and those dunks. Probably would have started getting deals his sophomore year. 6) Sherman. Great nickname. Great player. He was a bit shy, but I think he could have made bank. Because of the teams popularity and his 7) Coleman. Great player but his surely demeanor may have been a tough sell. But he was here for four years and would have absolutely racked up huge deals his SR year he was expected to be at the top of the draft. 8) John Wallace. Semi local kid who could have scored deals in Syracuse and Rochester. Great smile…but probably only two good years to make money. 9) Carmelo. Blasphemy I know. Great smile, but he was only here for one year and his most marketability was after his final game as a player. The hype for him was less than Pearl and Billy who each would had better deals before arriving on campus. 10). Johnny Flynn. Had a dynamic three years, great smile and was very popular. Other guys I considered: Leo Rautins, Rony Seikaly, Paul Harris (would have had deals coming in as a frosh), Scoop, Etan Thomas, Jason Hart, Tyus Battle, Preston Shumpert, Andy Rautins, Wes Johnson. I did this off the top of my head and I’m sure there are others I overlooked. But these were the guys that I thought of going back to my days of watching since 1980. [/QUOTE]

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