Liberal Forum

The NIL has changed the game obviously. It has moved the center of power from the SEC to the Big Ten. The Big Ten has more active alumni and richer alumni. When there was no NIL, the recruits stayed closer to home because there was little value added to going to Illinois (versus staying at Georgia, Florida, Clemson, etc). What NIL and the portal has done is taken away the depth that SEC and southern ACC teams had for years. Their second string players could be all-___ First team players in any other conference and probably get drafted early. Now. instead of being a second or third string player at Alabama.. they get paid and become first string players at UNLV, Nebraska, Oregon State.. just examples. I am not a fan of this current version of the game.