Agree. Another issue, beside the team chemistry issue, is the time distraction to the newly minted 20 year old. 20 years old and now there are contractual commitments where there were none before. How will, for e.g., Bryce Young, handle potential demands for his time? Will the new demands distract him from football?
Not sure. I read an article around the time the whole NIL stuff went into effect. The premise of the article was about athletes with large social media followings being able to cash in like the twin basketballers at Fresno state and the gymnast at lsu. They are already making content. Now they can get paid as much as 40,000 for a single sponsored post.
Once Cosmi and Kersetter were lost the team was forced to give up Hermensa’s beloved inside zone and inside power and switch to outside zone based on what the remaining OL could actually do and we became a much better offense.
You can’t enter into any NIL deals until an enrolled student under Texas NIL laws.
Hand’s misuse of Kersetter is why he is now coaching at Central Florida and not UT.
When Kerstetter had that injury against KSU they were talking about how he was playing with a fracture ankle and then it completely snapped. Gotta admire the kid for going all out but with a fractured ankle he just shouldn't see the field anymore.
