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I think NIL can be a really great thing.

Players should get paid for their name image and likeness, just like we get paid for our name, image, and likeness.

We also live in a capitalistic society.

But that doesn't mean I can't call it out when it seems to have gone too far.

Or the nature in which it's carried out seems flawed.

And that's exactly what I think when I hear

that Michigan has allegedly offered high school quarterback Bryce Underwood $10.5 million

over four years. Now, why do I think it's flawed? Because Michigan shouldn't be offering it.

Individual companies should be offering it.

See, to me, in a perfect NIL world, it would consist of a company reaching out to the player or his reps to strike a deal.

There should be no middleman. But now there is. It's truly pay for play. And now the market, if this comes true, has absolutely

ballooned, a la Deshaunned Deshaun Watson. To put this in perspective, this amount of money is akin to

being at the end of the first round or in the early second round of the NFL draft. Now, I don't have a

problem with the concept of NIL at all, but I have a problem with the execution.

At this point, kind of is what it is.

My second biggest problem is, I don't know how you turn down that type of money if it isn't matched by another school.

I know what I would do.

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