Why isn't anyone talking about Miami (YTM) booster buying their hoops teams?

Submitted by superstringer on March 27th, 2023 at 10:27 AM

Before this tourney began, I told my son, this is going to be the least-chalky tourney ever.  I saw "Uncle Seth" on ESPN say this is probably a one-year aberration, but I totally disagree.  We are in the new world of NIL + transfer portal.  KSU's team was entirely rebuilt with xfers.  SDSU has key ones.  Etc. The #1 ranking was a hot potato all year; the difference between a 3 seed and a 9 seed was as small as ever; etc.

And maybe the best proof of that are the Miami Hurricanes -- both men's and women's.  Make no mistake, they are the Texas A&M of college basketball.  They have a billionaire booster, John Ruiz, who has been paying huge sums to players on both teams to get them to xfer to Miami.  Supposedly doing marketing for his company you've never heard of (LifeWallet) and would never use based on ads with Miami hoops players. 

This might not be the future of "college" sports, but, it's what we hath wrought for the present.

There are definitely news articles about this, but I hear zero mention of this from the talking heads on TV about Miami's resurgence.  Should we be bothered?  I am all for capitalism. But whereas pro teams are on level playing fields, it's the Wild Wild West in the NCAA, and I'm not sure this is exactly what I consider capitalism.  (Not dissimilar is how European soccer is getting distorted by the oil money.)