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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Nobody would turn down playing football at OSU or Alabama vs playing for Harvard.  Nobody.

The NIL dollars plus payments direct from the school would be massive in addition to the potential to get drafted into the NFL.[/quote]
Your statement may be true for the five-star recruits and/or skill position players, but a player at the bottom of Alabama's recruiting class (yes, some of them are "only" three-stars) and plays interior offensive line, kicker, or safety is way better off going to a Harvard or Stanford.

Most of the NIL dollars are going to a small subset of the roster.[/quote]

Stanford is in a Power 4 conference, so not a good example.  There are big NIL $$s there too and the Stanford recruit would receive a 100% scholarship for football because that’s how it works in football.

I doubt anyone that is good enough to be recruited af Alabama is ever attending Harvard.  They would more likely pick a high academic Power 4 option like Duke or Vandy or UCB or UCLA where again…it’s a 100% scholarship.

They would then be in a position to enter the transfer portal if they have a great season in their conference.
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Once again, you're overlooking the fact that big NIL is going only to the best players at certain positions.

Would you at least concede that for some football recruits it makes sense to turn down Alabama for Stanford?[/quote]

I am conceding that…but Stanford is much different from Harvard because it is in a Power 4 conference.

The football recruit for Stanford goes 100% for free even if you make millions per year…100% of all Power 4 football recruits receive 100% scholarships (and if they were poor they would also go for free because they are as generous all Ivies for need aid).

So…let’s leave Ivy and Patriot schools out of the conversation because the economics of attending college and the ability to compete at a high level at a Power 4 school in football (not to mention having sold out stadiums and national TV coverage) will outweigh everything else.[/quote]

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