re: Damonic Williams decision day. Looks like LSU is out due to NIL...

True. But the bigger question a coach has to determine is is that one year (potential) fix worth resetting the market for your roster? If you have a big time starting LB with a $200k NIL deal see you sign a rotational, average DT at a "cost" of $600k guess who is going to be in your office soon, pissed off, demanding a "raise".

Yep that is going to start happening more and more. I think tightening the portal could help that. Also if a player is just not producing mainly because of effort, coaches need to have the ability to cut him at anytime. If it is going in the direction of the NFL model, then start treating them like NFL players. This is a shame because we are missing the Pride of playing for your favorite school. College football as we knew it, is gone for good and I really hate it. I would take going back to the days of Bama just cheating their asses off and we did just a little cheating.