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Message: [QUOTE="Consigliere, post: 4634108, member: 559"] It would be difficult to find a more passionate and supportive fan than me, but I am experiencing the same. The only thing I would change from your words is that it is not NIL that has changed the world for me. Paying a basketball or lacrosse player a few hundred bucks to get up early on a fall Saturday to spend a couple of hours mingling with fans at a tailgate, or even a few thousand for the use of his name, image and likeness on tailgate banners, T shirts and autographed photos has been nothing but a positive for everyone involved. It’s the abuse of the spirit of the concept, and more importantly the failure to police those abuses effectively, that has destroyed something that we have all loved for years. The NCAA punted on third down and proved to be exactly the feckless organization that they are. [/QUOTE]