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I googled "Lincoln Riley Josh Conerly comments" and not 1 article on the first page had a quote from Riley about anything, including an Oregon site and an Oklahoma site.
Then I googled "Lincoln Riley NIL comments" and only found this:
“It’s completely changed it,” Riley said Saturday. “In every sense of the word, it’s different. There was no doubt it was going to seep into recruiting at some point,” Riley said. “I think anybody that cares about college football is not real pleased with that because that wasn’t the intention, we all get that. A lot of people voiced concerns when NIL came up that there had to be a plan for that, and instead we instituted NIL without any plan for that, so that’s why we’re at where we’re at. I’m sure at some point there’s going to be a market correction, if you will, with recruiting. Hopefully there will be, because in a perfect world they stay separate.”
Never says anything about Conerly and that's pretty much what he said about NIL all along. Many coaches have had similar comments.
Here's what Nick Saban recently said:
“The concept of name, image and likeness was for players to be able to use their name, image and likeness to create opportunities for themselves. That’s what it was,” Saban said. “So last year on our team, our guys probably made as much or more than anybody in the country.”
“But that creates a situation where you can basically buy players,” Saban said. “You can do it in recruiting. I mean, if that’s what we want college football to be, I don’t know. And you can also get players to get in the transfer portal to see if they can get more someplace else than they can get at your place.”
