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Originally Posted by BillyMac
Angel Reese follows and taunts Caitlin Clark for eight seconds. I know that Clark did it in the semifinals (I saw it and didn't like it), but Reese's taunt in the finals seems different, longer, targeted, mean spirited, and less enthusiastically spontaneous than Clark’s taunt. Reese said that it was disrespectful for Clark to do it to sister SEC school South Carolina, I agree, but it was also disrespectful for Reese to do it to Clark. At least Clark didn't follow around her South Carolina opponents for eight seconds and stick it in their face.
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Angel Reese's NIL Value Leaps To $1.3 Million
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I wonder what Ms. Reese's NIL value would be if she "only" won the national championship and didn't get involved with the taunting controversy, with gasoline poured on the racial aspect of this fire by the media (and Ms. Reese herself)?
More NIL money, or less NIL money?
Did Dr. Jill Biden's (I'm a big fan or Dr. Biden, but not in this situation) controversial (possibly racist) and new precedent setting White House invitation to both teams, and Ms. Reese's negative RSVP to Dr. Biden, increase or decrease Ms. Reese's NIL value?
Will NIL deals and the transfer portal (regarded as a student right forever available to non-sports students in the past) lead to the opening of the Pandora's Box we all know and love as colleges sports?
I used to be a big Celtics fan and Red Sox fan. Now with free agents and trades based on salary caps happening so often I don't recognize the team members without a scorecard. I just begin to get comfortable with a favorite player, or two, or three, and "poof", they're gone.
Now I can't count on the players sticking around at UCONN (men or women) for three or four years due to the transfer portal. And every year we seem to get some transfer portal players that I only get to know for a year, or two, and then their eligibility runs out. And this "fifth" COVID eligibility year confuses me. I can't wait until all these "COVID players" use up their "extra year" of eligibility, or otherwise move on to the next level.
Now could somebody please help me down from this soapbox. I've been blathering on for too long a time on too many subjects and I'm getting dizzy up here.