Purdue head coach Matt Painter dropped a bit of a bombshell during his Sunday press conference ahead of the Boilermakers' National Championship Game matchup against UConn Monday night, suggesting that college athletes were getting benefits on the sly before the NIL era.
"NIL wasn't put into place so the schools with the most money could get the best players," he told reporters. "But if you want to be honest, that was happening before but illegally."
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