To facilitate some kind of collective agreement among colleges, like a cap or something? Yeah, it could've been done by a more effective and capable organization.
The problem with NIL isn't its existence, but the complete abdication of any reasonable regulations and guidelines by the NCAA. They thought they could create this small opening in kids making some money and rejected any sort of common sense solution based upon the clear direction this thing was...
You can tell who has actually been to Detroit and those who get their information from the "news". For my taste, Detroit-style pizza is my favorite and the Detroit airport was among the nicest I've seen. Good rappers, too, in the Motor City.
I'm not the least bit religious, nor do I find religious arguments particularly persuasive. Plus, I had to live as a non-religious person in East Tennessee with the annoyance of getting regularly harassed about church groups, conversion, and general proselytizing.
I say this because...
The 7-10 matchup is going to be tricky, too, one of the results of throwing away a shot at the #1 seed. The 7-10 game possibly will have dangerous teams who either have talent from an underachieving season (like a Michigan State) or a streaky team who was up and down a bit (like Nebraska).
I do not want to see Houston until as absolutely late in the tournament as possible. To me, they are a scarier tourney team than UConn or Purdue. They will shut your ass down on defense.
Ohio State did a fantastic job of denying the post entry pass and digging on Edey when he brought the ball low. Purdue loses that game by double digits if they shoot normally from the free throw line.
O'Neill took over from a 5-22 team which was one of the worst I can ever remember in the SEC. That wasn't getting fixed very quickly and UT was a tough sell for basketball as a football school with a football AD who cared very little about what was happening in Thompson-Boling Arena. I thought...