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Sadly Payne is significantly better than Carrington and Ben's job is to win so I don't think they'd be handled the same.

It's more in place that it allows the student athlete to still go to college under scholarship and also allows the football team to open up another scholarship.

Also Redding doesn't have a single catch in his career and has really only been a return man. Zero shot he sees signficant reps at WR.

I believe once you medically retire you're not allowed to play at the school as you sign a different type of athletic scholarship, but that doesn't prevent you from being able to transfer and being able to play if you get cleared at a different school. Same situation that happened to St-Juste.

Love it! Get some feedback from the NBA and see where you're at, and then come back for your sophomore season to become a top 15 pick!

https://x.com/JohnEadsWAFB/status/1778089284005683467

Come on home!!

This. I'm 100% for a scholarship for Fox and love what he does for the team, but there's no reason to keep Ihnen and would be a silly reason to try and keep him around.

Love Fox and the energy he brings but 2 scholarships for an off the bench role player is not worth it.

It looks like they all may be giving each other the time to announce/have their moment considering the way they've been rolled out

It worked for Steve Sarkisian!

I also think there is some ownership on players to make themselves marketable in order to receive NIL funds. Companies want charismatic, successful, and marketable people if they're going to represent their brand.

Can you elaborate?

On the bright side...with Carrington and Ihnen out our 3 point shooting % will go up and our FT percentage will go up with Payne leaving!

NIL is now a part of Ben's job though, and this is the THIRD max transfer exodus we've seen in his tenure as our HC. He was hired to come in and recruit MN players, which he has done, but there have been FIVE local guys who have transferred in the last year and that cannot be ignored. He's...

I understand the sentiment but realistically only Payne is leaving for an NIL payday. No disrespect to JOJ and Carrington but no one is rolling out the brinks truck to get them to their (Likely mid-major) schools. Players leaving starts and ends with coaching and it is not a part of their job to...

Honestly this one isn't surprising. Carrington is not enough of an offensive asset to play at the Big Ten level. By the end of the season teams were not even guarding him on the offensive end and he still couldn't produce. I have no ill wishes against him though as a local kid who stayed home...

We can't control NIL but if Ben truly is building something it wouldn't be as big of a factor. You don't see many other guys from Big Ten schools transferring just for NIL reasons. Especially not local kids. This is the second straight year one of our best players (whose from MN) is leaving...

This also likely increases a guy like Carter Coughlin's value as a player since kickoff/kick return will become a more active part of the game moving forward!

I disagree. Athleisure/team issued gear is 100% of the student athletes class wardrobe for the entire school year.