As Biggs, Observer, others have said, the absolute reality, is this is going to have a BIG affect on who WSU types can get, recruit.
To those who would say that "It wont affect WSU, because WSU doesnt get 3.5 stars, 4 stars, and only gets 2.5 stars, 3 stars at best", is wrong, and here why.
That woukd have been true, if this had happened back in the 60's, 70's, even 80's. But now this is not the case.
Now the reason why some think that this wont affect WSU, is because they only look at Walden, Paul Wulf, etc, WA, recruiting, and dont look at recruiting by Erickson, Price, Leach in the So Cal, and other areas around the country.
Kyle Smith, Erickson, Price, Leach, have proven for both Football, and Bball, that IF your a good salesperson, good recruiter, and IF your willing to goto the moon, other places like So Cal, around the country, world, and if willing to make a LOT of Offers, that will get a LOT of No's, that you will get enough yes's, that WSU would, will recruit 3.5 star, 4 star recruits just fine in both Football, and Bball.
Most of the MODERN successful WSU coaches have done that with Bennet, being a exception.
But this NIL thing is going to stop WSU from getting 3.5 stars, 4 stars, even if WSU had PERFECT recruiters, etc.
But there is one thing that WSU can maybe do to fight, deal with this
1. Get a near perfect recruiting specialist coach, whose job is to be the ACE recruiter on staff. That person wont coach, even tho they may be called coach.
2. Have a NIL specialist recruiting specialist coach that like the ACE recruiter.
A. This, that person will be in charge of: 1. WSU Football Sports, BBall sports Marketing 2.Using Social Media, internet WSU Sports Website EFFECTIVELY to do #1 above and other things. 3. To coordinate, pitch, recruit businesses to offer NIL deals to WSU recruits(Signee's)players. 4. without lying, communicate that there is a lot of NIL money for some players, recruits, etc.
3. Get a good enough Head Coach to:
4. Have 3, 8+,9+ win seasons in a row, with at least 1 NY6 Bowl.
5. Sign 2, Top 39 Recruiting Classes in a row.
IF IF IF WSU does that for football, then WSU might survive the NIL thing.
It will take about 2,3 years for the NIL thing to take FULL EFFECT, meaning to cause WSU types to not get 3.5, 4 stars.
If WSU does what I outlined above for Football, within the next 2,3 years, before NIL ramps up to Full Affect, then WSU will be ok, and still able ti get 3 star, 3.5 star, 4 star recruits.
IF WSU doesnt, and worse if WSU has a 0, 1,2,3 win season within the.next 2,3 years, then WSU would only get 2 star, 2 5vstar recruits, and within 1,2,3 years would see a return to the Paul Wulf type seasons, year after year, and WSU woukd become like Ore St was in the 60's,70's, etc, for 13 to 23 years, which would probably cause WSU to be booted out of Pac 12, into either Big Sky, or Mountain West, eventually.
But if WSU does what it needs to do, WSU will be ok. But will WSU do what it needs to do? I give avout a 39% chance to 43% chance of that happening.
In Bball. WSU can easily be just fine.
Kyle Smith is set to have a 18,19 to 22,23 win season, NIT DEEP run/NCAA 2nd round elimination, 7,th,8th,9th seed, 4th,5th,6th,7th, in conference. 1,2 wins in Pac 12 Tourny, 9-9,10-8,11-7 in conference, another, 3rd Top 40 recruiting class, followed by a even better seeason, a 4th Top 40 class.
If WSU has the right recruiters, specialist, marketers, NIL people, WSU Bball can easily have 4 to 6 to 8 AWESOME seasons in a row, 3 to 5 to 7 AWESOME recruiting classes in a row, and become a BBALL college, that can easily do well enough on the NIL front in BBall, to KEEP ON recruit 3 stars,3.5 stars, 4 stars, and KEEP ON having AWESOME seasons year after year semi consistently.
But Basketball is far enough aheas of the 2,3 year curve that, before NIL hits full effect.
Football unfortunately isnt.
My prediction is that WSU football even if have a good Doba like 10-3,season, will probably within the next 2,3,4 years, eventually go down the toilet.
But I predict Bball will probably be just fine
Hope my prediction about WSU football is wrong.
NIL is probably going to be bad for WSU football eventually
