At the end the day, all coaches face the same "give me more money or I leave" potential from their whole roster each year. Hard as that must be to manage, at least all coaches have to deal with it. Well, all rosters with players worth a damn anyway (Vandy doesn't have to worry about their player leaving for 700k deals lol).

Because of that, NIL seems to simultaneously strip poor schools of their talent AND strip big schools of their depth as these backups can leave and be starters elsewhere.

Ultimately, I think NIL injects a new aspect to how coaches need to evaluate "talent": How patient is this player, and are they delusional about their own talents? Rara was delusional, and left to ride the pine at UGA. But plenty of players are sane enough to take coaching and a reasonable NIL deal. Just another issue coaches have to work around BUT since all coaches deal with it I guess I can't have too much sympathy about it. Not at the big schools with lots of NIL anyway.

Like for all those 60 Bama players threatening to leave, there's probably 60 good players from UTEP, Washintong, ect entering the portal Bama can replace them with. It's a mess but it's not bad for Bama on the net.