Re: Times are Changing

is these NIL type deals, which just started this past season, have been a part of building your team that came out on top this past season, a team with mostly sophomore, junior, and senior starters. So you're saying these NIL endorsement deals were your "bags under the table" in years past. And you're pretending it was just Tennessee. The NIL legitimized some of your recruiting practices.

Funny how quickly NIL became such a recruiting tool when it's intent was for student-athletes to profit from the use of their name, image, and likeness when the school was also profiting from it. Now athletes are profiting before the school gets any return on their investment, schools that are taking a chance on them and offering them valuable scholarships that other students spend a small fortune on.

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If we have to essentially become a semi-pro farm team

Jan 15, 2022, 5:38 AM

for the NFL and buy/pay players as a high bidder in order to remain an “elite” football program, no thanks. Clemson is about having players who value teaching and education just as much as playing football.

If a high school player values making bank over what Clemson offers him long term in life, then he doesn’t fit the character for Clemson. Let those players go elsewhere.

Will that allow those schools who work to out bid others in order to acquire such misguided players to surpass Clemson on the field? Perhaps. But that is ok. Clemson will never sell it soul to the devil to buy championships. UGA, Bama, Texas, Miami, LSU can all go on their merry way to buy the best semi pro football team. Clemson will remain a program that focuses on the student athlete aspect of athletics first and foremost.

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Times are Changing

So what it sounds like you're saying