On Friday night, for the first time in a while, my Wisconsin group chat was firing on all cylinders with takes and texts and shouting. This is usually reserved for actual games, but on Friday we were discussing Oklahoma announcing that they were going to give up to $50,000 in NIL money for football, men’s basketball and softball players.
$40,000 to $50,000 NIL payment for scholarship athletes at Oklahoma in Football, Softball and Men’s Basketball. https://t.co/DxACOG24sn
— Jeremy Brown (@JBrownMaven) April 22, 2022
The discussion carried on into Saturday morning and then I saw this thread from Badgermaniac on Twitter, and I don’t want to try and “dunk on” this account (because many people have said this or think like this), but it made me want to write down some of my thoughts because I don’t believe there is as much “collegiate sports are being ruined for good” as people think.