ESPN.com · Mar 19, 2025
Wetzel: In the NIL era, great hoops coaches still finding a way
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EAST LANSING, Mich. -- From courtrooms to Congress, college athletics has spent the past half decade decrying how name, image and likeness rights for players and the transfer portal have adversely affected competition, if not supposedly destroyed the soul of collegiate competition.
Monied mercenaries have ended the concept of team. Transfers leaving after each season mean players no longer play for each other. Coaches are thus incapable of building and teaching. It's a wonder they even still bother with March Madness.
