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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]NIL will have zero impact on athletes who want to go to D3 schools.[/quote]

That’s right, but there are a lot of NCAA Division I schools in top 50 US News & World Report rankings. If DI sports becomes an arms race for talent it could have a cascading effect. Maybe schools like Duke and Notre Dame with established winning sports programs benefit and come out ahead, while others with smaller programs that make money just by playing and losing to other DI teams suffer. Maybe some schools are forced to drop down to DII or DIII losing revenue and talent which leads to less sports revenue and alum enthusiasm which leads to fewer donations which leads to a drop in rankings…
It has zero impact on D3 athletes and zero short term impact on DI athletes, but something is going to change.[/quote]

I realize there are some whose lives revolve around the culture of college sports. In many ways college athletics is a whole separate track and it exists for a different group for whom academics is an afterthought. That simply is not relevant to the folks participating on this thread.[/quote]

You don’t need to be a basketball fan to understand how Duke benefits from an excellent basketball program.  It’s free publicity, and many kids (smart ones included) do value a successful college sports program. It will be interesting to see how this all plays out.  I agree that the athletes at these programs haven’t been actual students for 30+ years.  [/quote]

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