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Travis Ford is a great coach for us and kids who get recruited do not always blend with the system. We are lucky it is taking several years to build his program as we have been a stepping stone before. His following locally and recruiting locally is the best we have had-even exceeding Grawer. Travis Ford was a top performer as a player and shows signs of doing the same as a coach. people complain about him playing eight players and for many years we had only one or two players on the whole team

IU after Knight is like UCLA after Wooden. I take a Sweet 16 here. Just one in my old age.

I doubt NIL is eliminating under-the-table payments completely

You don’t have to provide charity services to be a tax exempt organization. Most tax exempt organizations don’t provide any charity services.

And the tax exempt status of the collective doesn’t make that income to the player tax exempt. Today it is just as taxable as anyone else’s income. The Red Cross is tax exempt, but the salaries of Red Cross employees is taxed just like anyone else’s salary.

Two chances, Slim and none, and Slim now lives in Dusseldorf.

I read this as Marty Huggins at first

I can't imagine many organizations less deserving of non-profit status than NIL collectives. There is zero justification for allowing people to throw money in tax-free. Even if they set up a "charitable arm" it's going to amount to a fraction of the point of the thing, which is to attract recruits and pay players. This seems like easy pickings for any politician of either party who wants a tax-related talking point.

I would be thrilled to have Tom Crean at SLU.