re: Wesley Yates III enters the portal

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Serious ?, Does this even matter anymore since you could just "pay" for their school through NIL.

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You can do that in equivalency sports and some head count sports, but not in football or men's basketball. There are specific rules for when "recruited" players come in without scholarships, if they play a certain amount of time in their first year, they still count against the limit.

Even if NIL can pay for it, LSU's total cost of attendance before aid is about $35K, so you're gonna have to find at least that much more a year (coming in not on scholarship would probably also require a premium) in NIL donations. And we're not talking about junior year Dylan Crews here.

ETA: Disregard the first paragraph. I believe that rule only applies if they receive some other form of Institutional financial aid.