FILE - Virginia head coach Tony Bennett argues a call during the second half of an NCAA college basketball game against Duke for the championship of the Atlantic Coast Conference Tournament in Greensboro, N.C., Saturday, March 11, 2023. FILE - Connecticut players and coaches celebrate their win over San Diego State in the men’s national championship college basketball game in the NCAA Tournament on Monday, April 3, 2023, in Houston. Connecticut won 76-59.
“You can’t stick your head in the sand and say, ‘This is exactly how it was,’” Tony Bennett said. “You adjust. You make changes. But you still hold dear and hold true to what matters to you and your program, and you find the guys that will buy into it.”College football coaches bring in upwards of 25 new players each recruiting cycle, and that makes it easier to absorb the loss of a player who decides to transfer.
Lest anyone think NIL wasn’t a factor in picking the Jayhawks, Dickinson acknowledged as much when he addressed angry Michigan fans on his “Roundball” podcast in May: “The people hating on me would leave their job right now for a $10,000 increase,” he said. “I got, at Michigan, less than six figures. I got less than six figures at Michigan for the year.”It is also not entirely clear how much Jayhawks coach Bill Self had to do with lining up Dickinson’s NIL package.