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Exactly.....
Regarding the NIL look at what happened to last years Dirtbags team: Watts-Brown to Oklahoma State, Murillo to Georgia, Carlson to Texas, Schultz to Cal. All these programs (less so with Cal) have access to monied collectives to entice mid-major athletes. Especially in the case of baseball where you have a limited amount of scholarships.
I'm not disagreeing with you on continued/growing the financial support of the athletic department....it's imperative.
It's just that for a mid-major to be competitive in this new world order, a mid-major program needs to have access to an NIL collective in an attempt to stave off poaching from the likes of the SEC and Big 12. 
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Another thing that is happening is at the large "MONEY" schools groups of donors are getting together to create to their own nonprofits to get money to their athletes. We understand this is happening at USC. Their goal is to provide each athlete with $50,000 annually. Believe me this will also happen at UCLA, as although it is a state university donors will find a way to do it.
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