Self: Is this something or nothing?

Oldskoolkoach said:

Louisville got even less!

Open season boys, drop bags, NCAA and IRP doesn't care!

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This but unironically.

And this is good news, which we should embrace. Illinois is on stronger footing as a program in the NIL environment than we were in the previous one.

Ben Frederickson
A message usually whispered can now be shouted loud and clear, for all up-and-coming college basketball coaches to hear.
Cheat.
Cheat like crazy.
Do whatever you need to do to get and keep the best players on your roster, deny any wrongdoing if you ever get caught outside of the lines that are disappearing before our eyes, shovel blame downhill toward lower-paid assistants if that does not work, and don’t ever make the critical mistake of thinking you will get any bonus points for playing clean.
Don’t like it?
Better find another line of work.

In a development that would have been funny if it wasn’t so depressing, a mission launched to attempt to clean up a filthy sport has only confirmed the cheaters-always-win reality of college hoops.

This doesn't matter much to me. They basically did NIL a couple years before NIL started. The shift in the landscape the last couple years makes this a lot less relevant.