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but that means you can't take the developmental talent in the high school recruiting class, or your scout team is impacted, or you dont have depth at kicker/punter

Honestly, I dont see much difference between 105 and 120 or whatever with 85 scholarships. More kids have scholarships now but very few players outside of top 60 are seeing the field on Gameday. It gives the coaches more practice fodder and makes it easier than NFL dealing with injuries but colleges cant shop around for the injury replacement in season like the NFL (at least not yet). These days for a punishment to hurt the product on the field it all comes down to money.

The Mensah saga is over I guess and I doubt it changes anything except how teams structure contracts. Duke's lawsuit and TRO was probably very beneficial to them. From what I heard on the TSL podcast, it was a 2 year deal and Duke did not have a damages clause for when the player breaks the contract. Without the lawsuit and TRO, Mensah probably could have just walked and Duke would have received nothing in return. But with the TRO preventing Mensah from enrolling at another school, Duke likely used this leverage to get a monetary return (essentially acting as a transfer fee).

And my guess is that's the next step in NIL contract evolution. Every NIL contract will require a value to be released from the NIL contract, which will essentially set up a transfer fee system. And similar to your noncompete suggestion earlier, I think you could probably set this value to be higher based on who the player signs with. Something along the lines of: "Player can be released from this contract for a cost of $1M. If Player enrolls at another institution prior to the end date of this Contract, the player will owe [CURRENT UNIVERSITY] an additional $1M if that institution is within the Big-10, Big-12, or SEC, or an additional $2M if that institution is within the ACC."

Bah gawd. I'm ready

It has been cool to follow the Iditarod and Paige via TKP. I certainly would not even know about Paige or Squid Acres but for the community here. And looking forward to it again.

Here is her website (got here from Paige's Iditarod page posted by LBT):
https://squidacres.com/

They have ways to sponsor their dogs and visit their kennel, including opportunities to do tours and mushes.

Further tangential thoughts:
My parents have convinced me and my siblings to go on a family Alaska Cruise, from Seward to Vancouver. As part of that trip, I wanted to fly in early to visit Denali National Park and see other parts of Alaska. Seeing that Squid Acres does tours and mushes (even in summer), I am going to contact them about a tour.

and he should have taken the job

This comment was superfluous. /s

Paige's Musher Page

SPONSORS;

Northern Air Cargo
Integrative Pain Center of Alaska
Woodland Wellness Center
Susitna Adventure Lodge
Big Dan's Pet Food

Can we get TKP to sponsor Paige? I'd donate to that. I wonder how much a sponsorship costs?

Edit: How about an AMA hosted by TKP? With a little over a month out, I wonder if that is doable.

Let's go!!! After last year I think Paige can win the whole thing if the dogs want to run and she doesn't have any streaks of bad luck.

I'll be along for the ride again!

What Dabo said is right a limit to transfers would absolutely curb some of this tampering. 1 free transfer, transfer on coach change, grad transfer. Anything else: 1 yr sit.

5 years of eligibility play all 5 if you want but you can't do it at 5 different schools.

Make it a post season ban so no trying to say CFP arent bowls and a reduction in allowed NIL or Rev Share to football. 5 scholarship loss would only hurt 5 kids that likely never see the field anyway.