Too many "player-whisperers" these days telling kids what they should do next in their career.
I'd like to see more data about players that left a program for NIL/more playing time on what the return on their investment was. If they had a do-over would they make different decisions or was it really the right move? Do players that change schools every year really have a loyalty to any of them when their playing days are over?
There is a lot of collateral damage in this Portal and NIL era.
Fan-withdrawal because of PTSD associated with transferring key players will cause less emotional investment, and eventually less $$ investment in the program they follow.
NIL donation requests, ticket surcharges, and pleas from ADs has displaced asking for donations for brick and mortar projects.
Player buy-in to a coaching staff and program has been replaced with NIL buy-out of the players.
Sounds like you've never been one of the primary people leading a product to completion, only to have people you depended on leave to chase bigger $. Just because people understand why they left doesn't mean that others aren't upset.
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