Wetzel: In the NIL era, great hoops coaches still finding a way

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Wetzel: Why the sky has not fallen in NCAA hoops ​

From courtrooms to Congress, college athletics has spent the past half decade decrying how name, image and likeness rights for players and the transfer portal have adversely affected competition, if not supposedly destroyed the soul of collegiate competition.

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The new era is by no means without its flaws and frustrations. It has its benefits as well. Whereas the game was once dominated by so-called blue-blood programs, the power of Nike and Adidas to stock preferred rosters has been mitigated as once under-the-table money is out in the open. The playing field has leveled. New teams are winning.

Meanwhile, the transfer portal allowed Pitino to quickly rebuild St. John's with veteran talent. Pearl and Barnes brought their leading scorers in from Morehead State and North Florida, respectively.

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And who does the author name check?

There's St. John's...There's Tennessee...There's Houston...there is Auburn-- Duke, Florida and Alabama --

And he closes with?

And so here comes another March. Izzo. Pitino. Barnes. Sampson. Pearl.

Same old coaches, same old tricks.

How self-aware is this author? Is this satire or tongue in cheek stuff? Or is he writing on spec and forced to pretend the body matches his argument about level playing fields and new teams winning?