So now we’re supposed to feel sorry for the players. The mean adults, everyone, are taking advantage of the poor, misunderstood kids.
Or is it the other way around?
We’re so deep into this nonsensical college sports power struggle, it’s getting harder by the day to decipher who’s winning and who’s whining.
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The latest dust-up of the unsustainable that will lead to the unrecognizable (daily propaganda from coaches, not me): Will Wade left NC State for LSU after all of one season as coach in Raleigh.
And the college sports ecosystem lost its collective mind.
It’s just another example of coaches living under the “do as I say, not as I do” umbrella of unreasonable protection and deflection. Rules for thee, not for me.
And you know what? They’re right.
Because decades of coaches leaving after one season are distinctly different than the still wet paint of players and their annual free movement. No matter what a talking bobblehead screams on television, or your buddy posts on social media.
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The day all players begin paying buyouts to contracts — or in their current financial setup, NIL deals — is the day this thing is equal.
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Before we go further, let’s not ignore the Hurricane in the room: Darian Mensah had to buy out his NIL deal at Duke this offseason to move, and Miami not only paid it, but gave Mensah a mega one-year mercenary deal before he leaves for the NFL.
Wade paid $4 million to leave NC State, which means LSU transferred those funds to NC State to bring a convicted NCAA cheater — at LSU! — back to Baton Rouge. And that, if you can believe it, isn’t the focus of this…
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