lilesrt
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His parents moved once.Who’s to say they won’t again?NIL will be one economic factor and could make the balance a no-brainer, but NIL money pushing you to a distant campus CAN cause further analysis of cost of transportation to games, housing for game weekends, possibly rental car costs for the college years and of course post school economic factors related to impact of probability of NFL career and post career opportunities for the player. If NIL differential trumps all of those then it is what you say it is. Not all flights, rooms and car rentals are created equal for example, not to mention lost work if you have to leave on Fridays due to distance. Can be a real factor if all the folks sitting at the signing day table want to attend games.
NIL will be one economic factor and could make the balance a no-brainer, but NIL money pushing you to a distant campus CAN cause further analysis of cost of transportation to games, housing for game weekends, possibly rental car costs for the college years and of course post school economic factors related to impact of probability of NFL career and post career opportunities for the player. If NIL differential trumps all of those then it is what you say it is. Not all flights, rooms and car rentals are created equal for example, not to mention lost work if you have to leave on Fridays due to distance. Can be a real factor if all the folks sitting at the signing day table want to attend games.
There are lots of moving parts like every recruiting battle. I do know one thing about this recruitment: let's just say every coach on staff is not aligned in their effort to bring Nolen to UT. There are concerns about his "fit" with the culture. Part of that also extends to his family. But he is such a highly rated, talented player that currently lives in Knoxville so that is making it an interesting situation. Let's put it this way: If he lived in Arkansas with no ties to UT our staff would not even be pursuing him.
There are lots of moving parts like every recruiting battle. I do know one thing about this recruitment: let's just say every coach on staff is not aligned in their effort to bring Nolen to UT. There are concerns about his "fit" with the culture. Part of that also extends to his family. But he is such a highly rated, talented player that currently lives in Knoxville so that is making it an interesting situation. Let's put it this way: If he lived in Arkansas with no ties to UT our staff would not even be pursuing him.