I would take the game-by-game concept further to create something truly great. Go second-by-second, or timeout-by-timeout with transfer eligibility. Imagine it, and fall in love with it.
Duke vs. UNC. They each assemble as many players from all across the country as they can afford with NIL money, on their sidelines, sitting and waiting on the bench for the call to go into the game. Each of these players is on an NIL retainer fee to be there, ready to insta-transfer and enter the game. Each coach is like the macho, no-homo version of a Magic: the Gathering deckmaster, able to draw upon different cards for different situations, at a certain cost.
For example, if someone like Edey were to insta-transfer to Duke to play the next 8-10 minutes, it would cost Duke a very high per-minute rate in NIL money. But Hubert could counter by putting someone like Clingan in the game for those same minutes, for similarly high cost. If Scheyer has run out of funding near the end of the game, he has to rely on walk-ons who don’t care about money to come in and finish the game out, showing his ass as a poor budgeter of his resources.
Each game, Duke would have a different set of players available on their sidelines, and they could pay very little to beat the likes of Stephen F. Austin, who can’t afford much talent in any game.
Incredible. I would be way more into this than the current year-by-year product. The players would ultimately get degrees from the school where they play their final minute of their senior years.