There are still rules around who has to be a counter and who can escape it to be on NIL. Just because we have money to pay someone NIL doesn’t mean we can take them off scholarship per the NCAA. We will be committing a violation if we take players who need to be counters and not making them counters. If we’ve “recruited” them by visiting them, or if they’ve taken official visits here, they are counters. And there are rules around transfers, too. If they were on a four year scholarship at another school then that transfers with them. The 85 number matters.
I think our number is around four that we need to attrit.
If you don’t want to care about it and just let it handle itself, that’s perfectly fine. If you think we won’t have attrition because we can pay people NIL, you’re mistaken. Sean Padden saying publicly “yeah we need to see four people to the door” isn’t going to happen if he wants to keep working for Rhule.