Official game day thread- THE final four- Duke vs Houston
- By Gallipoli
- Duke Hoops Open Forum - Free
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As a football- centric conference, the SEC is awash in NIL funds. The SEC donors also want to compete in the NCAAT. The ACC has not reached that the breadth and depth of the SEC's level, except in a few cases- such as Duke's NIL payments to Cooper Flagg.One of the reasons the ACC is down is because my understanding is lack of NIL money at least compared to the SEC.
The SEC has perfected the model, because they were doing it anyway, before the NIL and direct payments to players became popular.