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Message: [QUOTE="DoctahLexus, post: 4513346, member: 6798"] I think you take away us giving him 22 and the NIL deal and the hype surrounding him starting at Cuse would be about just as massive as it is now. Lax media have been uniformly singing his praises as the best player his age in the nation for years and years now. In the end that is BY FAR the main driver to the hype, not the additional fanfare coming from the school. Anyone following college lax and recruiting knew this guys name well before he committed to cuse. You do not have many options to slow that hype train down. As for giving him 22, I think it is a good deal different than the Scanlan situation where (I believe) we offered it as a sign of our sincere interest and confidence in him as a recruit/transfer rather than him requesting the number. Spallina has explicitly wanted to wear 22 at Cuse his whole life. He has worn it as much as possible in his high school/travel team career. I think giving him what he wanted in that situation was the right move. With his mindset I think it will be nothing but a motivator. Also I think the importance given to the number is massively overblown but maybe that's a convo for another time. Where we may somewhat agree is the NIL deal. We have some other top rated recruits coming in this year, mainly Figueras and Thomson. Does it create tension when you offer a NIL deal to Spallina on a platter while the other top guys get seemingly nothing? Perhaps it could be, but this is also a source of tension in every college sports locker room across the country now, given the current state of NIL. I would hope this is just the beginning and Gait and co show similar love to our other top arriving players as time goes on. [/QUOTE]

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