Oscar Tshiebwe’s return is a win-win for college hoops as a whole and the star Wildcat in particular ByPatForde explains how this move is what NIL is all about ↓
, which is a very Kentucky number. The imperative to win at UK is bigger, thus so are the expenditures. If the number is accurate, it still would leave Oscar well in arrears of coach John Calipari’s annual compensation of $8.5 million.It’s a big moment in college basketball, a rare win for the sport in the talent tug-of-war with the NBA. Tshiebwe is the first national POY to stay in school since Tyler Hansbrough at North Carolina in 2008–09.
The complication in many precincts—including Kentucky—is that players are being paid for who they might become. They are being paid on speculation. They are being paid on recruiting hype as opposed to proven high-level performance. That’s not name, image and likeness; that’s pay-for-play recruiting inducement being cloaked as NIL.
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