After watching the HS AA football game yesterday, you cannot help think what might have been.
1. QB Dante Moore threw for 4 TDs and won the MVP. He was ours to lose; and, unfortunately, we did. Oregon-Michigan State-Ohio State, and then, UCLA wins it at the wire. What else could it be but NIL?
2. Edge rusher Keon Keeley was ours, too, until Nick Saban came calling. Saban sacked our future sack master.
Outside of the HS AA game, there were two others.
3. RB/Slot WR Dylan Edwards, who is considered by some as the fastest player in the country. We poached him from Kansas St., but became the poachees when Deion, the flim-flam man, grabbed him.
4. 5 star S Peyton Bowen. We need safeties desperately and this was our guy. Well, we thought he was our guy until he put on the Oregon hat, and then flipped to Oklahoma the next day.
Four superstars were lost.
Think how good we would be if we held on to those guys.
Will this happen every year?
Is there anything Marcus can do?
Will NIL make it impossible for us to compete?
Is a collective bargaining agreement for recruits our only hope?