To Go or Not to Go, NIL and UNC - IC Daily | College Basketball
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🗓️ 2 March 2026
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| 0:00.0 | Daily. It is Monday, March the second. I'm Tommy Ashley. That is Greg Barnes. Always, Johnny T-shirt, |
| 0:05.0 | Johnny T-shirt.com, and go to insidecarolina.com and sign up for your premium membership. |
| 0:10.2 | Don't Google it. You go to insidecarolina.com and sign up for your premium membership, |
| 0:15.5 | or you can hit the QR code that's on your screen now and take you to the screen. Sign up. |
| 0:20.0 | Greg, we'll talk about Carolina's game |
| 0:22.4 | with Clemson on Tuesday night tomorrow. I mean, it's certainly a big one for North Carolina, |
| 0:27.2 | but let's have a little fun here with this one. And we like to try to do these based off |
| 0:31.5 | discussions on the message board. And one popped up this past week. Would Caleb Wilson return to |
| 0:37.3 | North Carolina for $5 million? |
| 0:40.0 | It's an interesting discussion, and once upon a time, the answer would be yes, not only yes, but blank yes. |
| 0:48.5 | Not anymore. It's crazy we're talking about these kind of dollars when it comes comes to college athletes given the landscape and how it used to be. |
| 0:56.6 | But Greg, five million dollars is a lot. I do a lot for five million dollars. |
| 1:01.9 | But if I'm Caleb Wilson, there's no way in heck that I'm coming back to North Carolina. |
| 1:06.6 | It's just crazy money for top picks and NBA draft these days. |
| 1:11.5 | It really is. And when you factor in that the lifespan of professional athletes |
| 1:17.3 | is pretty short, then you've got to maximize your earnings opportunities. And I think |
| 1:26.2 | that's really what it comes down to. |
| 1:29.3 | The benefit, we can dive into this in a minute, but the benefit of the current landscape |
| 1:36.4 | in college athletics with NIL and RevShare is that if you're a really good college player, |
| 1:48.2 | but maybe don't project as a great NBA prospect, |
| 1:54.0 | then you can really do well for you and your family. |
| 1:58.5 | Armanda Bacott did that, R.D. Davis did that. |
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