You already knew this, but collegiate athletics are a mess — and it’s hard to say they’re even collegiate athletics anymore. What started as portal chaos and eligibility chaos with players getting seven or eight years to suit up thanks to COVID seasons and redshirts then became the Wild Wild West with NIL and pay-for-play, schools giving high school recruits and transfers millions upon millions with no pushback from the NCAA. Revenue-sharing is supposed to help with some of the financial ridiculousness in a slow transition back to legitimate NIL, but with no rules (and certainly no threat of punishment), it’s all still the same.
Mark Pope, Coach Cal sound off on current recruiting landscape in college basketball
