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[QUOTE="50YRsofCuse, post: 5269322, member: 6044"]
College basketball with NIL is getting to be everything I hated before NIL.

The richer teams that were operating in the dark are still operating but now it is all up front and supposedly legal.

The loyalty of a player to a team is now more or less centered on what a player can get and what is perceived best for the player. Team play now seems degraded to how a player can build his brand.

The purchase of players through the portal is based on what they did instead of what they can or will do. This is also based on the view how a player will fit into a coach’s established system (provided that a coach has a system).

Finally, in my thought process the value of a solid college education is out the door.  What (a fully paid college education in the 60s to the 80s was highly envied by the majority of students striving for is not even a consideration.  I’m not sure why atheletes even go to class anymore especially if they plan to leave after one to two years take full advantage of NIL and the portal. (I know they need to stay eligible to play for a college).

It is hard to keep a team together With the portal and NIL College sportsis more of a business than before where success leads to dollars and cents.
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