One thing that caught my attention in his remarks is what he said about how NIL makes CBB more like the NBA. Filling out a roster with a salary cap is like knowing what your NIL will be through the year. I'm excited to see how KY manages that. We've got some great resources there with Danny Ainge and Ryan Smith evaluating how to spend whatever money the RBC and CC bring in now that the University can direct collectives in how to dispose funds. Hopefully TH uses those resources to learn to do the same in FB.

Roster management will be particularly interesting to watch. Is it worth it to give up a scholarship/roster spot for Aly Khalifa for 2 years to maybe play one? Do you bring in and pay a guy like Adams who has an injury and then might leave before he plays a game?

The game is professional now so it makes sense to have a team with KY, Ainge, and Smith that knows how to put the best team together in the new NIL reality. This might be the advantage BYU needs like adopting the forward pass in the 1970s was for FB.

Also I'm glad Pope was begging everyone for NIL $, it's going to make KY look better when he has to play the same game.