[2006alum]

What is Muir supposed to do? Unilaterally ban NIL? It's not a coincidence the unprecedented number of out-transfers from Stanford over the past year has coincided with the maturation of big $, essentially pay-to-play individual NIL and collectives. And honestly, I think boosters of other schools just have more appetite to buy athletes than Stanford and its boosters do. I find the practice totally unseemly, as it seems like many around here do. Clearly UVA doesn't. So be it. 

Sucks, but then again, I'm very quickly losing all remaining interest I had in "collegiate" athletics anyway, so maybe these nails in the coffin will just make the mourning process shorter. 

And now with all that free time not spent following college sports, maybe I'll finally have time to read Infinite Jest...

[2006alum]

What is Muir supposed to do? Unilaterally ban NIL? It's not a coincidence the unprecedented number of out-transfers from Stanford over the past year has coincided with the maturation of big $, essentially pay-to-play individual NIL and collectives. And honestly, I think boosters of other schools just have more appetite to buy athletes than Stanford and its boosters do. I find the practice totally unseemly, as it seems like many around here do. Clearly UVA doesn't. So be it. 

Sucks, but then again, I'm very quickly losing all remaining interest I had in "collegiate" athletics anyway, so maybe these nails in the coffin will just make the mourning process shorter. 

And now with all that free time not spent following college sports, maybe I'll finally have time to read Infinite Jest...