Originally posted by Ship69
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There's probably only a handful of programs with followings strong (crazy) enough to get in to the NIL world. In football, I'd say IUP, Shepherd and Slippery Rock would all be candidates.
In basketball, I could see IUP getting started with it very soon. Joe has a lot of powerful boosters. Gannon would be a candidate with Gary Miller.
No doubt when you start waiving money at these potential transfers on top of a full ride ... it would shake up the landscape even more.
But, as I said, it's already such an uneven playing field. In football, for instance, we have PASSHE schools (not even mentioning the privates) with 25-28 scholarships playing against fellow division teams with 4-6 scholarships. I mean, it doesn't get much more uneven. If IUP Football has a 7-4 regular season, the brass would want Tort fired. If Clarion goes 7-4, they'd toss a parade. It's just very different worlds within the same divisions.
NIL could be the path for our top football teams to finally make a little more headway once they get out of the region.
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