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again, I definitely hear you...but that $200K/year, in what I'll just call "sunk cost" for the sake of this discussion, has always factored into financial math of a basketball roster. you'd be pretty hard-pressed to find a team that goes too much deeper than 10 players for a season, so there are always 3-4 non-contributing scholarship players now, you could make the case that those 3-4 players were thought of as developmental and NIL has taken that away...but I A. think the sample size is too small to definitively say that and B. would suggest that you could go back pre-NIL, 20 years, 30 years ago and agin you'd be pretty hard-pressed to find a roster that had 13 eventual contributing scholarship players...players transfer, players don't develop...there's always a miss-rate now, if you wanna make the argument that we somehow cut down to only using 10-11 of our scholarships...and maybe get creative with the accounting and funnel some of that savings into NIL...I'm listening. also, I really don't know the answer here, is a scholarship an actual expense? or is it just a sort of debit to the university's ledger?

Back in the day, and I mean way back ,I was invited, along with a small handful of other grads, to a meeting to review applications for athletic director of North Texas State. While we did have an interest in the future of NT athletics we didn't have a clue what we were doing. I don't remember who we recommended , to whom our recommendation was forwarded , or even if it was forwarded, but the man that was eventually hired lasted about a year before being fired for having an affair with a married staff member.I think both were married but don't recall. My point is thank God for professional search firms who do this for a living.

Memphis academics are a complete non-starter for the ACC. USF, however, is intriguing. Huge market. AAU status. Tons of investment in their athletic programs. I could see it.

High school coach straight to Samford for five years? Oh, there would be an uproar. There would be an uproar on here is we hired Self, K, Izzo, etc...