[DC 86]

So this is how it's going to be like: NIL agents running the show?
"Better NIL or I leave"

As regards college basketball, the shoe companies have been running the show for four decades, sponsoring AAU teams while paying players under the table, funneling those players to colleges they sponsor while continuing to pay under the table through assistant coaches. The big time schools that are the NIL capitals now lost their innocence long ago, as corroborated by those FBI tapes. Sonny Vaccaro was more powerful than any NIL agent ever will be. Let's not pretend that NIL is what professionalized the sport.

[DC 86]

So this is how it's going to be like: NIL agents running the show?
"Better NIL or I leave"

As regards college basketball, the shoe companies have been running the show for four decades, sponsoring AAU teams while paying players under the table, funneling those players to colleges they sponsor while continuing to pay under the table through assistant coaches. The big time schools that are the NIL capitals now lost their innocence long ago, as corroborated by those FBI tapes. Sonny Vaccaro was more powerful than any NIL agent ever will be. Let's not pretend that NIL is what professionalized the sport.