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[QUOTE="Hoo's That, post: 4651334, member: 3609"]
We have a NIL program, but it wouldn't reach the level of "chump change" for the Blue Bloods.  There have been some players in commercials.  Jayden Gardner did one for The Good Feet Store insoles.  Our fans express the same levels of disgust, disenchantment, and displeasure with the transfer and NIL situations that I see here on your board.  There are threads about them every day on the football and/or b-ball boards.  Right now on our B-Ball board is a discussion of why a 5-star turned us down, basically for money elsewhere.  I said that if the determining factor for him was money I question whether he was really considering playing for us in the first place or just "saying the right things" when he visited and that made people think he was serious.  I left unsaid, "Do we really want a player like that?", but I'm sure I wasn't the only one thinking that.

The dynamic is interesting.  There's a group of people who hang onto a faint hope that we can be in this super league.  The biggest group doesn't know what to think because things are changing what seems like hourly and what they thought should be done at 9 AM is now overtaken by events and no longer is an option.  And then there's a group, dominated by alumni, that includes me.  It's somewhat equally divided among the "we'll never have that kind of money, so why bother," "look at the low lifes we'd have to consort with," and the "we want [I]students[/I] to wear our colors" factions who do not want UVa to even consider being part of this super league and to start formulating plans about what to do when, not "if" (Wow, I just got hit by déjà vu), it happens.
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