I’m going to go ahead and address the elephant in the room.
NIL is causing a problem for schools like NC State.
There’s only so much money to go around and donors are having to choose between donating to their alma mater for facility upgrades, coach salaries, and scholarships, or donating to these NIL Collectives which pool money to eventually pay players in hopes they can be convinced to come or stay.
This is the reality now. The time for being an old man and arguing against the concept is over. It’s time to figure out how to operate in this landscape.