re: NIL allows for unlimited roster sizes

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Athletes are not going to accept a walk-on role b/c of NIL. They will choose the school that offers a scholarship spot along with NIL.

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That is incorrect.

Even before the era of open NIL, you had guys who turned down scholarship offers to smaller schools to go walk on at the Alabamas and LSUs of the world. Heck, LSUs starting RB Josh Williams came in as a walk on.

There have been several news reports about collectives as some schools (BYU was one I think) providing essentially the cash equivalent of a scholarship to walk-ons.

Most Sun Belt level schools aren’t able to provide NIL deals to more than a few players.