If NIL had come sooner, Vols would have more titles
The college football season is just a few weeks away. But that’s no
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Ok, here’s what one of my local longtime UT fan pals says “Every time they get a new commitment I think it’s all about the money, not wanting to play for Tennessee. Very sad if you’re an older fan.” Another one who retired near Knoxville agreed.
I had a middle aged Michigan fan in-law comment about NIL “Capitalism, baby!” I replied “Good old out of control American Greed at work!”
My questions:
1) When are the meetings going to happen to supposedly fix things? This Fall?
2) UT has recently won a baseball title. With so many large businesses and billionaires moving to Tn, what’s to keep them from out raising other schools, including UK, for basketball and other sports’ NIL?
3) How is having the NIL money funneled through the Universities going to fix the inequities?
4) Is a “NIL” cap the only way to begin to repair the system? Otherwise, fans of the less lucratively funded universities will eventually lose interest, right? I have no guess at any time frame, but it has to happen, imo.
