Quote Originally Posted by gtowndawg View Post
Jay Wright had a really intereting take on the Oakland and Kentucky game. He said the days of super freshman winning big are done because of NIL. Players like the kid from Oakland (he's 24 years old) have been playing college basketball longer than the Kentucky freshman have played high school and college combined. NIL will keeps your good players around longer now and they basically become veterans and veteran players level the playing field against more talented younger players.
Some veterans just get a year older, not always better. Some will plateau as good college players and never move to the next level. Will be glad when all these covid eligibility years are gone and we have college age players playing against each other again.