This NIL stuff makes it really tough to know what you’ve got coming into a season.
That’s why these early season games, which used to not matter, are a lot more fun to watch these days. Suddenly, I’m packing an entire off-season of speculation into a few weeks in early November.
There literally was no way to know what this team would look like coming into the season. Sure, you could look at the pieces and try to imagine what they’d look like together, but the only real way to get a reading on this team was going to be to watch these first few games.