In 2020, a college athlete accepting a free meal from a booster could lose their eligibility permanently. By 2024, freshman quarterbacks were signing NIL contracts worth millions. This seismic shift happened in less than five years—and it fundamentally changed what it means to be a college athlete in America.
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After World War II, a median American home cost roughly two years of an average worker's salary. Today that same calculation stretches to seven or eight years in many markets — and that gap isn't just about inflation. Something more fundamental shifted in the relationship between Americans and the homes they hoped to own.
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