It’s Friday at TheSabre.com so it’s time for another Virginia fan Q&A. A newer feature on the site, we take questions and give our opinions or find an answer. This week, there are questions on NIL, UVA baseball, and division-less football.

If you want to ask a question, just email us or post it on the EDGE board each week. Go Hoos!

With the advent of NIL should UVA try to “keep up with the Joneses” and “pay to play” or await what essentially would be a realignment of schools into levels of competition? ~ Slider

It’s hard to turn a college sports corner anywhere and not hear the letters NIL right now. From NCAA guidance to conference meetings to leadership councils and on and on, everyone is trying to figure out the rapidly changing landscape when it comes to college athletics and name, image, and likeness opportunities.

At the root of all the chatter: what are the fair marketing opportunities and what are the booster-driven or at least booster-adjacent deals that amount to illegal recruiting. It’s a complicated situation. I’ve been linking related articles in NewsLink this week so anyone interested can check that out and here’s one on Tony Elliott’s perspective from the site.

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