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If you are wiley enough to bend the rules successfully where others were not there is simply no reason to expect that the removal of the rules will level the playing field.

Disagree. There are some schools where “bagmen” were/are part of the culture. It was generational, dad’s and then their sons. Those schools got kids in by giving them $10k or giving a recruit’s mom a better used car.

Now, those bagmen are obsolete….they can’t compete with legal pay where kids make six or seven figures, legally.

So no, the schools that used to cheat better than others will not have the same advantages in pay for play…..the future is a more level playing field. I expect there will be more parity, at least among the programs with well organized NIL collectives.

This post was edited on 2/7/24 at 12:41 pm

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Posted by Toneski

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Posted on 2/7/24 at 12:39 pm to Toneski

I meant to add that, a recent example of how NIL changes things, is SC.

The Gamecocks had never signed an out of state 5* until last year. That kid was lured by NIL deals for football and track.

The Gamecocks had never signed two 5* recruits in the same class until this year and those kids signed on after the Gamecocks went 5-7.

Those kids don’t sign with the Gamecocks in a non-NIL world.

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