It's the wild wild west out here! Kids are doing what coaches do and even at the high school level
https://www.dallasnews.com/high-school-sports/basketball/2024/03/27/four-time-state-champion-andrea-robinson-is-leaving-desoto-to-coach-at-faith-family/
The new school, such as TT, would buy coach Mac out of his contract as will all universities of note. UNT paid North Carolina of Somewhere $100,000 to buy their women's basketball coach Karen Ashton out and she lasted one year before bolting to Texas. I feel safe in saying Texas bought her contract out and we got our money back and maybe even a little more. She eventually was fired because she could never compete with Baylor and is now at UTSA. If you want to put players under contract you would need to treat them as employees with the same benefits you provide all other employees. In summary, we are in violent agreement that the system is broken until it isn't and Chandler Rogers lands in our lap. I think in the near future the Power conferences such as Big 10 and SEC will spin off and do their own thing leaving the Group of whatever number to put their own division together leaving 1AA programs alone. In the meantime we are stuck in NIL/Transfer Portal Hell.
In 1995 we were basically Independent, moving from 1-AA Southland Conference to 1-A Big West Conference in 1996. We were limited in who we could schedule and where the game would be.
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